Buried Treasures of the Pacific Northwest: Secret Indian Mines, Lost Outlaw Hoards, and Stolen Payroll Coins
- ISBN-10
- 0874834384
- ISBN-13
- 9780874834383
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 191
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- august house
- Author
- W. C. Jameson
Description
Do Indians living today know the location of the supposededly cursed Lost Gold of Devil's Sink? Did Sir Francis Drake bury millions of dollars'worth of ancient Incan treasures? Has anyone found the box of gold coins buried by a reputed giant in the Washington rain forest? Is there a noble family's fortune buried near an old log cabin in the Cascades?
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