So here we have 30 intelligent men sitting around a campfire and discussing a safe place to store all of their wealth back east; If folks believe this...then no doubt they believe in all of those other cave related treasure tales.How many lost treasure stories have we all read that were associated with a cave?
Beale - "Hey, what about that cave that everybody and their brother knows about? You know, the one that gets frequented all the time. Bet that would be a secret safe place to stash all of our loot!"
First mate - "Smashing idea! Let's hide it there!"
Really? This was their grand secret safe-house plan?
THAT cave, COULD have been the cave at Natural Bridge (once owned by Thomas Jefferson) or the "Murder Hole" cave (has another name, will have to review my R & I...).How many lost treasure stories have we all read that were associated with a cave?
Beale - "Hey, what about that cave that everybody and their brother knows about? You know, the one that gets frequented all the time. Bet that would be a secret safe place to stash all of our loot!"
First mate - "Smashing idea! Let's hide it there!"
Really? This was their grand secret safe-house plan?
Did you miss the part that there was NO James Cockrell silver mine, or their encounter with not so "friendly" Indians?Thank you for helping me make my case.
In St. Louis;
Beale - "Hi there. My name is Thomas Beale, Captain Thomas Beale, and my buddies and I have 600-700 pounds of freshly mined silver that we'd like to trade for jewels to save on transportation weight seeings how we got so damn much of the stuff, gold too. Can you help us out?"
Store keep - "Why sure, and I won't tell a single soul about your discovery and your fantastically wealthy mining operation. It'll be our little secret."
Beale - "Thanks pal."
And these problems with the story, and many-many others, all bring about a very obvious conclusion, and this is it. "You'd better hope that this alleged wealth came from someplace other then a mining operation as described in those bogus Beale paper letters and C2, otherwise it never existed at all."
Couple that with NO existing evidence outside of the Beale Papers that can corroborate this "grand adventure" actually ever happening, what remains is a grand adventure dime novel with parlor entertainment ciphers.
"Murder Hole" was "aka" Catawba Cave in Botetourt County, Va., not far from Buchanan, Va., where the BEALE Family had land, a Plantation, etc., "back-in-the-day". ANOTHER "possible" source is nearer to Montvale, Va. (formerly known as Buford'sville). The Boxley Rock Quarry in Villamont area (formerly known as IRONVILLE), MAY have started as a CAVE! Dunno.
You must have missed my serial dime novel parody of the Beale story that was posted on TN.
No, he never claims anyone ascertained their secret, only that "if and when they did" then they would see that no store of wealth was being kept on hand. And yes, "the author" made certain to elude to Indian massacres as a possible reason why "the alleged party was never heard of again," just as countless other treasure tales have eluded to. I'm sure those same marauding Indians must have gotten the guy in St. Louis as well. Morriss was just lucky that those vile Indians never came that far east as he was, as with most other treasure tales, the lone survivor with the secret.
WHAT, then... IS "THE SECRET...?No, he never claims anyone ascertained their secret, only that "if and when they did" then they would see that no store of wealth was being kept on hand. And yes, "the author" made certain to elude to Indian massacres as a possible reason why "the alleged party was never heard of again," just as countless other treasure tales have eluded to. I'm sure those same marauding Indians must have gotten the guy in St. Louis as well. Morriss was just lucky that those vile Indians never came that far east as he was, as with most other treasure tales, the lone survivor with the secret.
