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Other Kansas Treasures Just Waiting to Be Found

Dodge City: Reportedly, a stolen Wells Fargo treasure was hidden west of Dodge City, Ford County.

Elkhart: Bandit loot hidden at Point of Rocks northwest of Elkhart, Morton County, remains concealed.

Ellis: In 1870, a railroad payroll of $22,000 was robbed from the Wells Fargo office at Ellis. According to local legend, the money was stashed around the limestone banks of Big Creek just outside of town and never recovered.

Point of Rocks in Morton County, courtesy

Kansas Geological Survey

Lakin: $24,000 in silver coins was buried in 1828 on Chouteau's Island, in the Arkansas River, 5 miles southwest of Lakin. Chouteau Island was along the Santa Fe Trail but has since disappeared due to the erosion of the Arkansas River.

Lakin, Kansas in 1907 courtesy Wichita State University

Neosho Trail: A large cache of gold coins, in a pair of buffalo hide saddlebags, were hidden by a buffalo hunter on the Neosho Trail between Baxter Springs and Coffeyville at a point where the trail crosses the river.

Offerle: In 1851 a party of returning California gold miners and their families was attacked by Indians just across the Arkansas River from what later became Taylor Ranch two miles southwest of Offerle. $90,000 worth of gold dust was buried in a Dutch oven at the site, and the only survivor was a eight year old girl who was taken captive by the Indians. She survived to pass on the story to her descendants. In 1918 a woman who claimed to be related to a survivor of the massacre (none outside of the eight year old girl was known to exist) turned up in Kinsley with a map indicating that the treasure was hidden somewhere southwest of town, but she was unable to find it.

Reader's Update: I’m writing you on behalf of a article you wrote. I am writing to let you know that this is only a myth. My family owned that land that you talk about and we used it for grazing cattle and sold it to a farmer of which I don’t know of the name, but if needed I’m sure I can come up with it. Within the time the farmer had it I’m sure that his discs would of have hit the treasure. - Dylan, October, 2004.

Lawrence: Around 1862 an army paymaster was robbed of $195,000 in gold and silver coins while enroute from Lawrence to Denver. The coins are supposedly buried between two sycamore trees between Lawrence and the Wakarusa River, just to the south of Lawrence in Douglas County.

Topeka: $500,000-$1 million in gold coins are buried on the old farm of Abram Burnett on the north side of Shungannunga Creek which cuts through Topeka. His farm took in the SE 1/4 of Section 9, Twp. 11, R15 E in Mission township.

Wallace: Peter Robidoux was the first merchant to settle in Wallace in the 1800s and prospered. He is known to have hidden a number of caches of gold and silver coins, in and around the town site, which went unrecovered after his death.

Morland: A party of either Spaniards or California gold miners threw a chest of treasure into the Soloman River near Morland when they were attacked by Indians. The river changed course and the chest was never recovered. Some sources claim that the treasure, now under dry ground, was a hoard of gold bars worth $400,000.

Paola, Kansas 1863 courtesy Wichita State University.

Paola: On July 10, 1918, the Missouri-Kansas & Texas passenger train was robbed by two men near Paola in Miami County. A small safe containing gold and silver coins was taken off the train into a field, where the bandits tried to open the safe without success. Eager to get away, the outlaws buried the safe at the edge of the woods about 100 yards from the railroad tracks. When one of the two was captured and taken into custody, he confessed to the robbery, telling the lawmen about the burial site. However, the money has reportedly never been found.

Randall: In 1910, Davey Morris, a miserly farmer died on his farm about three miles south of Randall in Jewell County. Mr. Morris was a loner and a hard-working farmer who lived very frugally in his small cabin upon the farm. For more than thirty years, he sold his produce for cash, stashing it away in hideaways upon his property. After his death, it was found that Mr. Morris was not a poor man, when various amounts were found hidden all over his cabin. Reportedly, Mr. Morris also stashed sums outside of the cabin on other areas of his property, but these have never been found.

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