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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.
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 ...
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
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.
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of New Mexico, ... 100 Tons of Gold; A. Abo (historic place) ... Victorio Peak This page was last ...
The Half-Known World.Graywolf Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-55597-504-3.; What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak.Cinco Puntos Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-933693-21-7.
The amount of mail being sent to western New Mexico during the 1930s prompted the government to create a new post office in the area affectionately named "Lost Adams Diggings, NM;" the post office has since closed. The 1963 novel MacKenna's Gold by Heck Allen is loosely based on the Adams legend.