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The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada that symbolically represent events and peoples that played significant roles in North American history.
Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by including concealed clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare that had been created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams.
Masquerade, a 1979 book credited with popularizing the armchair treasure hunt genre; The Secret (treasure hunt), a similar concept by publisher Byron Preiss begun in 1982 and still not completely solved; Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse, a 1984 multimedia treasure-hunting puzzle
Author and hunt creator Max Valentin released his book, 'On the Trail of the Golden Owl,' in 1993 — spawning decades of searching in France
A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).
Collins-Black spent five years planning the treasure hunt and wrote a book with clues. Jon Collins-Black once dreamed of finding treasure of his own. Now, he's hidden five treasure boxes around ...
Laserdisc cover for Treasure. Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse is a treasure hunting puzzle published in 1984 by the Intravision production company. It was conceived as a story-based contest by filmmaker Sheldon Renan similar in concept to that of Kit Williams' book Masquerade.
It is a follow-up to Williams' previous treasure hunt book Masquerade, although not a direct sequel. The book was initially published without a visible title, with the result that it is also known as "Untitled", and "the bee book" and other variations. Discovering the book's true title was the basis of a competition for readers. [1]