Do
you want to strike it rich and find lots of treasure? It's not as easy as it seems.
Sometimes treasure-hunters get lucky, sometimes they make mistakes. Occasionally, a
clever treasure-hunter will do some hard work and dig up a treasure that took years to
track down.
I always wanted to find
treasure myself,
especially some pirate treasure. I remember one morning, when I was in third
grade, an adventure I created for myself. I went to our backyard with a shovel
and dug many holes around our big oak tree. I was looking for a pirates'
treasure chest, and I was sure they had buried one under our tree. Of course, I
never stopped to think that we lived 700 miles from the ocean-- hardly a
distance that pirates would travel overland. So I struck out. But I had fun
looking (and filling in the holes later!).
Here are four treasure
stories that appear in my book How to Hunt Buried Treasure. Maybe
they'll help you find some treasure.
Treasure
Story 1: The Ghost Town Treasure
Treasure
Story 2: The Red River Treasure
Treasure
Story 3: The Lost Treasure of the Bighorn
River
Treasure
Story 4: Hunting for the Donner Party
Treasure
Story 5: Treasure of the Lost
Dutchman's Gold Mine
Treasure
Story 6: The Missing Treasure of
Clifford, Colorado
