Gold Rush Caches and Buried Treasure Stories

12 Buried Caches Records

• Joaquín Murieta's Bodie Hills Stash buried cache · Bodie Hills, Mono County · Medium probability

  Joaquín Murieta, the famous 'Robin Hood of El Dorado,' was rumored to have multiple caches of stolen gold hidden throughout California. One of his largest stashes, valued at $200,000 in gold coins and dust, is said to.

• Dr. John Marsh Pioneer Cache buried cache · Mt. Diablo Foothills, Contra Costa County · Low probability

  Dr. John Marsh, one of the first American doctors in California, accumulated a massive fortune in gold coins and bullion during the Gold Rush. Distrustful of banks, he buried his wealth in various spots around his.

• Peter Lassen Buried Treasure buried cache · Deer Creek near Vina, Tehama County · Medium probability

  Peter Lassen, the famous Danish pioneer who gave his name to Lassen Volcanic National Park, owned a large rancho along Deer Creek. Before his mysterious murder in 1859, Lassen supposedly buried a cache of over $50,000.

• Rattlesnake Dick's Trinity Mountain Loot buried cache · Trinity Mountain, Shasta-Trinity National Forest · Medium probability

  In 1856, the outlaw 'Rattlesnake Dick' Barter and his gang hijacked a mule train carrying gold bullion from the Yreka mines down to Sacramento. During their escape over the rugged slopes of Trinity Mountain, the gang.

• The Deloma Cave Indian Cache buried cache · New River Wilderness, Trinity County · Low probability

  During the California Indian Wars of the 1850s, local tribes reportedly raided several rich mining camps along the Trinity and Klamath Rivers. To protect their loot from soldiers and miners, they stockpiled gold dust.

• Butler's Buried Cache buried cache · Amador County, Mokelumne River channel roughly two miles northeast of Lancha Plana (submerged under Camanche Reservoir). · Low probability

  During the Gold Rush, a prospector named Butler operated an incredibly rich placer claim on a bend of the Mokelumne River that yielded up to fifty thousand dollars daily. Distrustful of banks and under pressure from.

• Clear Creek Mormon Coin Cache buried cache · Shasta County, southwest of Redding near the historic Horsetown Clear Creek Diggings along Clear Creek Road. · Medium probability

  In the 1850s, a Mormon wagon train was journeying through the Redding valley toward the settlement of Horsetown when they attempted to cross a swollen, flash-flooded Clear Creek. One of the wagons, driven by an.

• Poker Flat Cache buried cache · Sierra County, in the northern section of the West Yuba Roadless Area near the historic ghost town of Poker Flat. · Low probability

  During the height of the Sierra County Gold Rush in the late 1850s, Jerome Peyron operated a highly prosperous retail store that catered to the thousands of miners in the Poker Flat district. Fearing the frequent.

• Yankee Jim's Hidden Gold buried cache · Placer County, situated on a ridge between the North and Middle forks of the American River, near the ghost town of Yankee Jims. · Medium probability

  In 1849, a notorious horse thief named James 'Yankee Jim' Robinson accidentally discovered a highly lucrative placer gold deposit in Placer County while hiding from law enforcement. To conceal his massive find, Jim.

• Volcanoville Chinese Gold Cache buried cache · El Dorado County, located along Volcanoville Road on the Georgetown Divide, approximately six miles north-northeast of Georgetown. · Low probability

  During the mid-19th century, Volcanoville was a bustling mining community in El Dorado County that was home to a wealthy Chinese store owner who quietly amassed a massive fortune in gold. Before planning a return trip.

• Black Bart's Lost Gold Amalgam Cache buried cache · Old Sonora-Milton stage corridor near Milton, Calaveras County · Low probability

  One of the most specific Black Bart cache stories holds that, after being wounded in a Calaveras County holdup, he fled the stage road, wrapped his hand, and hid a sack of gold amalgam in a rotten log while concealing.

• Stoddard's Gold Lake Legend buried cache · Lakes Basin Recreation Area, Plumas County · Low probability

  In 1850, Thomas Robertson Stoddard arrived at a mining camp claiming he had found a lake in the high Sierras whose shores were littered with pure gold. While the legendary 'Gold Lake' was never located, the massive.