Good theory!
OTE=Not Peralta;3944184]My theory and opinion on the "Doc" Noss treasure:
I do believe Doc Noss found a hidden count and storage room with a dead Padre at a table, and that he did find documents of great importance in a leather pouch and in another room, he did find gold bars stacked up along with other artifacts. I personally believe these items were found in the Caballo Mtns in New Mexico. Doc had told Ova this story about the room caving in. Due to the cave-in, he would never be able to do anything else with it, but found information about another treasure somewhere else close by.
I believe during this time period that Doc found these items the location would eventually be compromised due to activity around the area. There were several ranches and homesteads in the area. It was open range and lots of cowboys always watching and hunting for cattle. Also Mexican sheep and goat ranchers. Not a good place for discovery, too many people.
Doc needed to find another place to claim his find.
In the mean time, he started stashing his finds in other locations. In case someone found the original site, he would still have some gold. I personally do not believe he wanted to move very much out of the original location. I think there was too large of an amount.
The Victorio Peak caves had been used by lots of different groups of people. It was used so much there could not have been anything hidden there.
Doc did not trust anyone, but when he found out about Victorio Peak, that was his solution to many things. He had taken enough gold out of the original site to last for awhile. I think he went back at night and blew the original sites entrances closed knowing everything in it would be safe. He could now concentrate on Victorio Peak as his location for "finding" his gold. I believe Doc went back to Victorio Peak quite a few times, surveying the caves, found all the entrances and blew all but one shut so that it would never be assessable again.
Now to complete his plan, he just needed a witness to his "find". For whatever reason, he chose "Ova" and swore her to secrecy. I think Doc did something to 1 or 2 of the gold bars to make them look older and stashed them in the cave near the entrance along with a few other artifacts. Doc and Ova would go there several times camping like they did other places. After hearing all the stories from Doc about what was in the cave, Doc would finally make one or more trips out of the cave with gold bars and a few artifacts to convince Ova of his "find". Now all he had to do was convince Ova that the opening wasn't big enough to bring everything out, that he needed to enlarge the opening, which he actually wanted to seal forever to keep his secret safe.
What ever he brought out of the original site and was trying to sell ended up getting him killed. From then on a treasure legend was born. Because it had an innocent eye witness (Ova) to Doc bringing treasure out of Victorio Peak. She would swear to it for the rest of her life because to her it was true.
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