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

[Wham]

Well, I tried heading up to "Them Thar Hills" last weekend with the goal of following the Vernon Crow story. I was hoping to locate and photograph some of the areas he mentions in his story. Sadly, I was informed by the Forest Service, the road to Red Cone is still closed... Deep snow banks still cover the road in places.

In the mean time...

A wonderful resourse available for the armchair Treasure Hunter...

In 2005 I spent a couple of days in the Denver Public Library Western History Department poring over old scratchy and sometimes broken microfilm reels, reading over the 1864 Rocky Mountain News articles about the Reynolds Gang. Every 45 minutes I had to run a gauntlet of escalators, elevators & panhandlers out to the street to feed the parking meter. Save yourself the time and coins. The Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection is online and currently includes 147 newspapers from 60 cities and 40 counties published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Search for treasure clues as you read about the day to day escapades of the Reynolds gang as they were originally reported..!

The digital versions appear to have been copied from the microfilm archives and are sometimes hard to read, but if you highlight and click on your desired article a new window will pop-up with a slightly enlarged version. From the pop-up window you can then select “view” from the upper left hand corner and choose to read the article as a PDF file. The PDF file can be enlarged up to 6400% and saved to your computer. This definitely beats the illegible 10 cent microscopic copies you get from the library.

Articles and dates to look for: Daily Rocky Mountain News 1864 (all articles appear on the 2nd page)

(GUERRILLAS AT WORK - BUCKSKIN JOE COACH ROBBED – PRISONERS TAKEN – THE BAND WITHIN TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF DENVER - July 26) (THE GUERRILLA RAID - July 27) (More About The Raid - July 28) (From Fort Lyons - July 29) (Organize - July 30) (The Guerrillas - August 1) (The Guerrillas Routed - August 2) (The Guerrillas - August 3) (More Scared Than Hurt - August 4) (Guerrilla Hunters - August 5) (Later From The Park - August 8) (History Of Reynolds’ Rebel Band - August 13) (The Reynolds Band - September 9)

I did not search for any mention of the Reynolds Gang beyond September 9, 1864, because we all know what happens next…


Look Out… Ahead..!

Eighteen years after the demise of the Reynolds gang the Fairplay Flume reported the discovery of a mummified human head near the mining town of Montgomery. Read on to find out what happened to the “head” of Owen Singleterry. (Diving Into The Past p2. - February 16, 1882) (Mines And Mills Of Montgomery p2. & “John Smith” Redivivus p3. – February 23, 1882)