Reynolds Gang treasure Options

[Lady_Rebecca]

Can any one give me hard facts that the Reynolds Gang treasure has NOT been found??? Anyone???
Lady Rebecca

[hootsmeister]

Here's a twist you may not have heard before regarding the Reynolds brothers.....

They had been working placer mining in Park County in 1861. After Colorado went on record as favoring the North. they moved to Texas, where they were recruited to join the Confederate Army.
They joined forces with Captain John McKee, who had done some mining near Geneva Gulch. He had gathered approximately 70 men, intending to wage war on behalf of the Confederacy, but got caught before anything really happened.
They were "allowed" to escape, some say, and regrouped in Texas. Captain McKee went into active service with the Confederates, and arranged passage through Confederate lines for the Reynolds brothers, authorizing them to go back to Colorado and "raise hell".
This last tidbit is interesting, in that a secret organization, known as the "Knights of the Golden Circle" were known to have the power and authority to arrange passage through Confederate lines. Some researchers believe that Jim Reynolds was inducted into the KGC by Captain McKee before leaving Texas.
Since the organization kept no written records of its membership, there's no way to substantiate this claim.

However --- one of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of the KGC was to create "Payday" drops and "Vaults" containing currency (paper, gold and silver) for its members to use when needed. Considering that the Reynolds gang buried treasure near Devil's Head, somewhere in Geneva Gulch (or nearby), this may be an indication that they were following the SOP of the KGC.

Recently, on the History Channel some researchers found a "Payday" drop in Kansas (iirc), left there by Jesse James. Their theory is that Jesse James was also a member of the KGC.

I'm not a KGC buff, but if I were looking for this Reynolds gang treasure, I'd look for carved symbols in the rocks up Handcart Gulch or Geneva Gulch....and then dig nearby.