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Kokoweef’s river of gold

California · Kokoweef Peak, eastern Mojave (San Bernardino County)

In the 1930s Earl Dorr swore in a recorded affidavit that beneath Kokoweef Peak he had walked miles of caverns above an underground river whose black sands ran thick with placer gold, then dynamited the entrance shut to keep it. Miners have hunted a way back in for ninety years, and workings at the peak have chased the story within living memory.

Where it is

Kokoweef Peak, eastern Mojave (San Bernardino County)
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The source

No single published account; the story is carried locally.