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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
Victorio Peak, a high rocky outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin in southern New Mexico; Victorio Peak Formation, a geologic formation found in the Delaware Basin in Texas and New Mexico; Victorio Peak treasure, a cache of gold reportedly found inside Victorio Peak in 1937; Victorio's War, an armed conflict that took place 1879–1880
Although there are countless examples around the world, several common themes can be traced throughout the various legends. 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 ...
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.
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.