Black Bart's Lost Gold Amalgam Cache
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 his shotgun in a hollow tree. Unlike generalized claims that.
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- Target Name: Black Bart's Lost Gold Amalgam Cache
- Registry Category: buried cache
- Geographic Location: Old Sonora-Milton stage corridor near Milton, Calaveras County (Coordinates:
38.03200, -120.85400) - Land Status: Mostly private ranchland and county-road corridor on the old stage route (owner permission required off-road) (Classified as Permission Required)
- Primary Historic Source: Calaveras Heritage Council - Black Bart robbery account
- Search & Usefulness Rating: Score 40/100 (Field Readiness: Permission First)
- Summary Overview: 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.
Historical Overview
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 his shotgun in a hollow tree. Unlike generalized claims that he buried loot somewhere in California, this legend attaches to a particular escape episode on the Sonora-Milton road corridor. The hidden sack was never publicly recovered, which is why it survives as one of central California's better localized outlaw-cache stories. Its weakness is precision, because the exact rotten-log or hollow-tree site was never authoritatively fixed.
Field Search & Recovery Tips
Treat this as a route-corridor legend, not a pin-dropped dig site. The best research path is reconstructing the historic stage road from county history and robbery narratives, then checking present-day parcels before entering any ground. Much of the likely terrain is private, and the odds that the original hiding place survived intact are low.
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Mostly private ranchland and county-road corridor on the old stage route (owner permission required off-road)
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Calaveras Heritage Council - Black Bart robbery account
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