Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
In 1856 the gang of Richard "Rattlesnake Dick" Barter held up a mule train hauling roughly $80,000 in Yreka gold bullion through this high country. George Skinner could not move the heavy gold without fresh mules, so he buried about half of it in the Trinity Mountains and was killed before he could recover it. Around $40,000 in gold is said to still lie somewhere in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Trinity Mountains, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, west of Redding. Source: Legends of America; Active NorCal. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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