Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
In the 1870s the steamers Bessie Brady and Molly Stevens ferried Cerro Gordo silver bullion across Owens Lake to the freight road south. The ships and the silver trade are hard history; the lore is that at least one load of bars went into the lake and was never raised, and that it sits in the brine of the dry lakebed today.
Owens Lake, below Cerro Gordo (Inyo County). Source: Cerro Gordo and Owens Valley steamship history, 1870s; the sunken load is lore. 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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