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Doc Noss. The treasure was allegedly found in 1937 by American businessman and gold prospector Milton Ernest "Doc" Noss. [1] [a] While there have been multiple documented expeditions to the peak, no gold has been officially recorded as being recovered from the site. [3]
The amount of mail being sent to western New Mexico during the 1930s prompted the government to create a new post office in the area affectionately named "Lost Adams Diggings, NM;" the post office has since closed. The 1963 novel MacKenna's Gold by Heck Allen is loosely based on the Adams legend.
The Baldy Mining District was one of the largest gold producing districts in New Mexico. [1] Also sometimes known as the Elizabethtown Mining District, it encompasses Baldy Mountain (Colfax County, New Mexico). [2] There is no longer any large scale mining. Most of the land is now owned by the Boy Scouts of America as a part of Philmont Scout ...
Victorio Peak is a high rocky outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin in southern New Mexico.This was one of Chief Victorio's hideouts, and was the site of a battle in 1880 between Victorio's Apaches and the U.S. Army Ninth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers."
Map of Baldy Town, New Mexico, 1921–1938. Baldy Town, New Mexico is a former mining town in the Baldy Mining District in Colfax County, New Mexico. Baldy Town was established in 1868, to service mining prospects on the East side of Baldy Mountain, notably the Aztec Mine. After Baldy Town's initial high profit boom from 1868 to 1870, Baldy ...
Various claims have been made about the location of the gold mine based on an interpretation of the stones, and such claims appear at regular intervals—though no one has yet recovered a flake of Jacob Waltz's gold. [2] Claims about interpretations of the map are many, as are accounts of the stones' origins, and most of those claims are made ...
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The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1] hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. [2] It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 [3] in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef.