A local legend said that in 1864 or 1865 a Confederate gold shipment
being transported along the Blue River was buried when Union forces
entered the area and almost reached the Red River. The Confederates
carved a steer's face into a tree with one horn pointing up and one horn
pointing down to the ground where the chest was buried. The chest
was supposed to have been buried about three miles east of Highway
70 and about three miles east of Durant on Lone Oak Road at the bottom
of a hill on the edge of the Blue River.
About 1915 a young boy found the steer's head carving and started
digging under the tree. Seeing an old Indian who lived nearby the
young boy stopped digging and ran home. The boy later returned to
the site with his father and discovered that the area had been dug up,
possibly by the Indian.
The Newman Brothers of Durant got a steam shovel to dig at the site
in the 1930s. Near some quicksand the steam shovel brought up an old
rusted chest with the letters "C. S. A." on it, but the chest rolled back
into the quicksand. They discovered that the quicksand was 90 feet
deep, too deep for their steam shovel, so they abandoned digging.
being transported along the Blue River was buried when Union forces
entered the area and almost reached the Red River. The Confederates
carved a steer's face into a tree with one horn pointing up and one horn
pointing down to the ground where the chest was buried. The chest
was supposed to have been buried about three miles east of Highway
70 and about three miles east of Durant on Lone Oak Road at the bottom
of a hill on the edge of the Blue River.
About 1915 a young boy found the steer's head carving and started
digging under the tree. Seeing an old Indian who lived nearby the
young boy stopped digging and ran home. The boy later returned to
the site with his father and discovered that the area had been dug up,
possibly by the Indian.
The Newman Brothers of Durant got a steam shovel to dig at the site
in the 1930s. Near some quicksand the steam shovel brought up an old
rusted chest with the letters "C. S. A." on it, but the chest rolled back
into the quicksand. They discovered that the quicksand was 90 feet
deep, too deep for their steam shovel, so they abandoned digging.
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