Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
A French expedition, said to number three hundred men, worked placers in the San Juan country around 1790 and ran into disaster: attacks, starvation, a brutal winter. The story holds they buried millions in gold on Treasure Mountain before the handful of survivors staggered east. Maps claimed to descend from the expedition still circulate, and the mountain wears the name on the federal quads.
Treasure Mountain near Wolf Creek Pass (Mineral/Archuleta counties, CO). Source: The name is on the USGS map; the gold is the legend. 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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