Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
On the Carson Pass emigrant route in Amador County, three scouts of the 1848 Mormon Battalion party were killed here, giving the spring its name. Local lore holds gold was cached nearby in the chaos. The spring is real, the buried gold is legend.
Carson Pass route, Amador County. Source: Amador County history (Mormon Battalion, 1848). 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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