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The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as the Treasure of Victorio Peak or Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold reportedly found inside Victorio Peak in 1937 in southern New Mexico.
What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak is a 2008 non-fiction book by Robert Boswell and David Schweidel chronicling the search for gold treasure inside Victorio Peak, New Mexico. [1
Victorio Peak is a high rocky outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin in southern New Mexico. This was one of Chief Victorio's hideouts, and was the site of a battle in 1880 between Victorio's Apaches and the U.S. Army Ninth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers." Additionally, an American gold prospector claimed to have found hidden treasure inside the ...
100 Tons of Gold is a non-fiction book written by David Leon Chandler and published by Doubleday in 1978. [1] It chronicles the search for gold treasure inside the Victorio Peak , New Mexico . Further information: Victorio Peak treasure
Usually the mines are said to contain valuable elements or minerals such as gold, silver or diamonds. Often there is a map or other document allegedly detailing the history or location of the mine. Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history.
In the 1971 spaghetti Western film The Last Traitor, there is $200,000 worth of Confederate gold. In the 1994 film Timecop, a single traveler from the future hijacks a shipment of Confederate gold using advanced automatic weapons with laser sighting. This gold is mentioned later to be used in untraceable payment to terrorists in the 20th century.
A former porn star is heading to prison for her role in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a makeshift grave in the Florida Panhandle, prosecutors announced this week.
Vic's Peak in the San Mateo Mountains is named for Victorio, an Apache warrior and chief. Geronimo (Goyaałé), a Bedonkohe Apache; kneeling with rifle, 1887. Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901.