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| Why is it that no one has posted what they know so others will and soon enough we would have a reference we could all draw upon to help each other figure out what they are finding and sharing?.
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First off the Spanish found many mines and left a lot of gold and silver behind. They left 1000's of signs and markers also, pointing at waterholes, campsites, showing the way to villages etc. But they left no signs to their treasure troves why would they? Think about it the Spanish were expert map makers with a vast knowledge of the natural world they had little need to leave signs. Plus at the time the southwest was over run with explores from England France and many other places why leave signs pointing at your treasure/mine for someone else to claim for their country? Every few years someone or a group will find some Spanish treasure but its from hard work and research not from signs and markers.
90% of all the so called signs I have seen in the last 40 years fall into several categorizes first natural oddities which writers and armchair treasure hunters try to promote as treasure signs. Second Indian marks are cowboy doodling. Third and becoming more common every year modern marks used along the borders to mark coyote or drug smuggler trails.
The KGC is next to Oak Island one of the biggest fantasy treasures ever. If you research it you will find little info about the KGC before the 1960 when a small group of writers/treasure hunters started to print the legends and rumors but add zeros to amounts and names that had no connection to any group much less the KGC. Then to make it a marketable story they tried in the Masons. yep it makes for fun reading but there are little facts.
Go back to 1865 the south was losing the war because they had no guns no ammo if they had millions of dollars they would have supplied their army and may have won the war but they had no money they were broke. At the end of the war the Confederate treasury was 500,000 dollars of that all but a 180 grand has been account for and 50,000 of that was recovered in the Florida panhandle in 1975. So there is maybe a little hid somewhere but not the millions some folks want you to believe. No big treasure rooms full of millions of dollars in gold and silver you have to have treasure to hide it and the south never had any. Sorry
Trying to tie Jesse James into all this is just nonsense. Jesse was an outlaw murder with little are no education, what little money he stole over the years was drank and gambled away. The whole KGC is just one more example or writers and armchair hunters making a story more interesting by add nonsense and calling it fact.
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