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Google Trail View For Treasure Hunting

February 8, 2010

Premium GPS-based information from Trimble Outdoors and leading national publications—BACKPACKER, Bicycling and Mountain Bike magazines—is now available as a Google Earth Featured Content Layer.

This is the first multimedia GPS content layer for outdoor adventure seekers that allows Google Earth users to access a wide variety of data on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, GPS tracks, points of interest, trailhead directions, trail descriptions, photos, video and audio clips.

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The Mysterious Kingston Silver Ledge

New Mexico has always been a silver state. A number of famous mining districts were founded on the white metal, including Chloride, Black Hawk, Hermosa, Burro Mountain, Georgetown, and [...]

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Evidence Of An Advanced Civilization During The Ice Age

A look at the book: Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings
by Dr. Charles Hapgood
This book gives compelling evidence that there existed advanced civilizations prior to any that we are now aware of. Scholars have long dismissed legends and myths of such civilizations as mere story-telling and embellishment by our ancestors.
Dr. Charles Hapgood [...]

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Where To Find Hidden Money

You can find treasure because people have been hiding money since the beginning of time. Here are a number of reasons why.

People don’t trust other people.
They don’t trust banks.
Many people don’t trust their spouses. I’m not kidding.
People don’t trust the economy, or the stock market.
Many individuals hide money just to feel secure.

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Treasure Maps In The Library Of Congress

Although I personally don’t place much value in treasure maps per se, there are any number of maps available in the U.S. Library of Congress that do contain valuable information for the discerning researcher and treasure hunter. Some of these were produced by state and Federal agencies, while others were produced by private individuals.
In this [...]

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The Shipwreck Of The Treasure Ship La Vierge Du Bon Port

This East Indiaman is probably one of the richest French vessel ever lost at sea and never found.
The La Vierge du Bon Port was bought in Saint Malo in 1664, armed with 30 cannons and 300 tons of cargo space. Her captain, Truchot de la Chesnaie, from Saint Malo also, was commanding this vessel on [...]

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Famous Treasure Legends

1. The Lost Dutchman Mine
Arguably the “great grand daddy” of all lost mine and lost treasure legends, the search for Arizona’s Lost Dutchman Mine continues unabated by both groups and individuals. As the story goes, a prospector and miner named Jacob Waltz made a rich gold strike somewhere within or near the Superstition Mountains.

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Brad Pitt To Star In The Lost City Of Z

An upcoming film based on the 2009 David Grann’s book The Lost City Of Z: A Tale Of Deadly Obsession In The Amazon. Pitt stars in the film and is scheduled to produce it as well. The story is about an explorer’s search for a British Colonel who disappeared trying to find a legendary City [...]

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The Lost Silver Gunsight Mine

Death Valley has always been a land steeped in legend. Many factors have combined to make it so. The valley is extremely remote and incredibly barren. The westbound 49′ers who used the Death Valley trail had to cross the arid Basin and Range province of southern Nevada and then the Amargosa Desert before they even [...]

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