Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Thomas Rhoades, and his son Caleb after him, rode alone into the Uintas in the 1850s and came back with gold, said to come from sacred Ute workings they were sworn never to reveal, hauled under agreement for the early church. When the arrangement died, the location died with it. The Uinta high country has been combed for it for a century and a half, and the story remains the strongest lost-mine tradition in Utah.
High Uintas east of Kamas (Duchesne/Summit counties, UT). Source: Utah folklore of long standing. 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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