Gypsy Heart
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This one dates back to the early 1800s, when Spanish explorers came through the plains of Colorado, following the river that would earn the French name Cache la Poudre, or hide the powder.
The story of the Spanish cave along the banks of the Poudre southeast of Windsor came from a man named Albert Marshall, who arrived in Greeley in 1906, to find the mysterious cave.
Marshall said he and a friend came through this area in June 1866 en route to the mountains to search for gold. One night, camping along the river, they were hunting for food and chased a jack rabbit, which disappeared into a small cave.
The men followed the rabbit and soon found the narrow cave opened into a larger room, where they found old chains, bits of harness and bones. Human bones. Marshall said there was "a chain held to the wall, and at the end of it an iron anklet dangled a bone - no doubt the remains of a victim chained to the wall."
Then men picked up several Spanish gold pieces.
They left the cave intact, covering the entrance and marking it with a bush. They went on to the Colorado mountains in search of gold, where Marshal's friend died and Marshall returned home.
Later, he came back to search, but he never found the cave.
And so, like the story of the Frenchman's Gold, the Spanish cave is still out there, waiting to be found.
The story of the Spanish cave along the banks of the Poudre southeast of Windsor came from a man named Albert Marshall, who arrived in Greeley in 1906, to find the mysterious cave.
Marshall said he and a friend came through this area in June 1866 en route to the mountains to search for gold. One night, camping along the river, they were hunting for food and chased a jack rabbit, which disappeared into a small cave.
The men followed the rabbit and soon found the narrow cave opened into a larger room, where they found old chains, bits of harness and bones. Human bones. Marshall said there was "a chain held to the wall, and at the end of it an iron anklet dangled a bone - no doubt the remains of a victim chained to the wall."
Then men picked up several Spanish gold pieces.
They left the cave intact, covering the entrance and marking it with a bush. They went on to the Colorado mountains in search of gold, where Marshal's friend died and Marshall returned home.
Later, he came back to search, but he never found the cave.
And so, like the story of the Frenchman's Gold, the Spanish cave is still out there, waiting to be found.
