Among the trees is where the spring is located.
The Lore
Of
Buried Gold
As the legend goes, someplace near the
ghost town of Clifford there is supposed to be buried gold.
It all begins in 1862 at Coon Springs
in Eastern Colorado. Coon springs was a
stop along the Smoky Hill Trail. Taking
advantage of the springs and plentiful water an Army payroll detachment had
stopped there.
Some outlaws jumped them and subdued
the soldiers. The outlaws got the
payroll, reportedly over 100,000 dollars in gold. Mounting up the outlaws began
their escape, heading out across the plains loaded down with the gold.
The outlaws did not do a very good job
of tying up the soldiers for shortly after the thief’s had left, the soldiers were
free and mounting their horses to give chase. Galloping across the prairie the
soldiers were quickly gaining on the highwaymen.
Being loaded down with the gold the
outlaws ducked into a gully. They were
going to bury the gold and return afterwards to retrieve their ill gotten
gains. Shortly after riding up out of
the gully, the soldiers caught the bandits.
The bandits were taken to jail and
sentenced to prison. After their
release, two of the outlaws were killed in gunfights and the third disappeared.
There were stories of what happened to the gold
and how the burial spots were marked.
With no more outlaws in the area, treasure hunters galore showed up to
search for the buried gold.
There were never any reports of the
gold being found but there were stories galore of finding marker stones. These reports would fuel the gold fever even
more. Even today, there are folks that
say the gold in still buried out there somewhere.
Searching today is a problem, it is
all private land and most folks in the area don’t like people roaming on their
pastures. That does not deter the treasure
seekers. They show up with their metal
detectors and want to go hunting.
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