Gypsy Heart
Gold Member
In 1872, a 160-acre homestead was allotted Jospeh W. Boulanger, some
13 miles south of Sedan on K-99, just north and west of the Big Caney
river bridge near the town of Boulanger that was platted by Joseph's son,
Walter, in his honor. Walter, father of Mrs. Lenora (Boulanger) Hills, a
resident believes Boulanger to be the only Osage Indian in history to honor
his father by naming a town for him.
The original homestead has remained in the Boulanger family these 100 years
and recently was purchased from the Stephen Boulanger estate by Betty Lee,
a great granddaughter of Joseph.
Within the Boulanger saga comes an intriguing tale. In 1862, one Captain
Goldie was leading a wagon train of immigrants through Osage Nation from
the gold fields of California. When the caravan of wagons neared the Osage
hills near the present Pawhuska, a band of Pawnee Indians swooped down to
attack.
Only one man succeeded in escaping the wagon train, with the $100,000 in
gold concealed on the train. It was Captain Goldie.
Goldie saw he was being followed, and decided to bury the gold when he
reached a dense forest near the Caney river. He chose two large trees that
grew from the same trunk, and between them and the Artillery Mound, (north
of Boulangerville), just to the north, he buried the gold. For a final
marker, he placed a musket rifle in a hollow tree just to the south of the
gold burial. He then turned his horses loose, hoping the Indians would
follow them instead of him. His hopes were fulfilled.
Captain Goldie reached his home in Missouri all right. But, though the
Pawnees had not captured him, he had contracted a deadly illness. The
doctor told Goldie he had little chance to survive. The wagon master told
his wife what had happened and drew a map of the area where he had buried
the gold. On the map, he marked the exact number of steps from the mound
and trees. In a few weeks he died.
His wife knew no one whom she could trust with the maps. Her only child,
a boy only six years old, she believed was too young to make the journey
after the goldwith her. She decided to wait.
Twenty years passed before Goldie's son attempted to find the treasure.
It was in 1882 when …… who lived near the banks of the Caney river. Young
Goldie had found Artillery Mound, but south of it was no dense forest as
his father had told. The land was now clear and planted in grain.
Young Goldie learned that Boulanger had cleared the land, cut down the two
large trees that grew from the same trunk, and found the old musket in
another. Boulanger showed Goldie about where the trees had grown, but all
their digging for the treasure yielded nothing. Goldie's family gave up
search long ago. But if the captain's map was right, $100,000 in gold
lies close to the Caney river, near Artillery Mound.
As late as the summer of 1971, a family of treasure hunters stopped at the
Everett Boulanger ranch. They were equipped with all types of metal
detection devices and were treasure hunting for the Boulanger treasure.
Perhaps it is still there!
The above story was told many times to Granddaughter Thursie (Boulanger)
Uhls by her Grandmother Sarah. Thursie made her home with her grandmother
after the death of Grandfather Joe in 1913.
MAps at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/ok/osage/blngrmap.htm
13 miles south of Sedan on K-99, just north and west of the Big Caney
river bridge near the town of Boulanger that was platted by Joseph's son,
Walter, in his honor. Walter, father of Mrs. Lenora (Boulanger) Hills, a
resident believes Boulanger to be the only Osage Indian in history to honor
his father by naming a town for him.
The original homestead has remained in the Boulanger family these 100 years
and recently was purchased from the Stephen Boulanger estate by Betty Lee,
a great granddaughter of Joseph.
Within the Boulanger saga comes an intriguing tale. In 1862, one Captain
Goldie was leading a wagon train of immigrants through Osage Nation from
the gold fields of California. When the caravan of wagons neared the Osage
hills near the present Pawhuska, a band of Pawnee Indians swooped down to
attack.
Only one man succeeded in escaping the wagon train, with the $100,000 in
gold concealed on the train. It was Captain Goldie.
Goldie saw he was being followed, and decided to bury the gold when he
reached a dense forest near the Caney river. He chose two large trees that
grew from the same trunk, and between them and the Artillery Mound, (north
of Boulangerville), just to the north, he buried the gold. For a final
marker, he placed a musket rifle in a hollow tree just to the south of the
gold burial. He then turned his horses loose, hoping the Indians would
follow them instead of him. His hopes were fulfilled.
Captain Goldie reached his home in Missouri all right. But, though the
Pawnees had not captured him, he had contracted a deadly illness. The
doctor told Goldie he had little chance to survive. The wagon master told
his wife what had happened and drew a map of the area where he had buried
the gold. On the map, he marked the exact number of steps from the mound
and trees. In a few weeks he died.
His wife knew no one whom she could trust with the maps. Her only child,
a boy only six years old, she believed was too young to make the journey
after the goldwith her. She decided to wait.
Twenty years passed before Goldie's son attempted to find the treasure.
It was in 1882 when …… who lived near the banks of the Caney river. Young
Goldie had found Artillery Mound, but south of it was no dense forest as
his father had told. The land was now clear and planted in grain.
Young Goldie learned that Boulanger had cleared the land, cut down the two
large trees that grew from the same trunk, and found the old musket in
another. Boulanger showed Goldie about where the trees had grown, but all
their digging for the treasure yielded nothing. Goldie's family gave up
search long ago. But if the captain's map was right, $100,000 in gold
lies close to the Caney river, near Artillery Mound.
As late as the summer of 1971, a family of treasure hunters stopped at the
Everett Boulanger ranch. They were equipped with all types of metal
detection devices and were treasure hunting for the Boulanger treasure.
Perhaps it is still there!
The above story was told many times to Granddaughter Thursie (Boulanger)
Uhls by her Grandmother Sarah. Thursie made her home with her grandmother
after the death of Grandfather Joe in 1913.
MAps at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/ok/osage/blngrmap.htm
According to Steve Wilson's book,Ok. Treasures and Treasure Tales, page 145, Blevins inherited the map from a member of the gang. I don't know. I thought Jesse and his entourage got the map from the Mexicans when they robbed and killed the pack train with the eighteen burros loaded with bullion. Seems the Mexicans had planned on recovering the Madrugada cache in the near future. Comanche co. was where map was found? How does the location of a map determine the location of a place?
I might get luckier than a puppy who just discovered his own tail.
