The way Forrest Fenn puts it, the treasure chest includes: 265 gold coins; nuggets; a Spanish 17th-century gold ring with a large emerald; necklaces; and a Navajo bracelet that Richard Wetherill, the controversial cowboy, explorer and trader credited with discovering Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace, sold to hotel legend Fred Harvey in 1901.
“I won it playing pool with Byron Harvey,” Fenn says.
Inside his memoir, you will find a 24-line poem that includes nine clues, which, Fenn writes, “
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