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Well, "CSA Max" was WIA during the CONFEDERATE WAR, was a member of the Lynchburg, Va. HOME GUARD... AND! PROBABLY knew the "back story" of the Beale PAPERS Pamphlet... hence, selling it in his store on Main Street.
...and if Max was mentioned in the job pamphlet and was selling copies at his store on Main street, "Buy a book, get a pick and shovel, strike for Buford's, dig, grow rich or starve".-THE LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAN, April 10, 1885, Page 1/ Column 3
There was NO mention of an iron box in the HART PAPERS, so what was the origin of this iron box?... As you said George Hart even gave Pauline Innis directions to the iron box in Roanoke, Va. If the story was not true how did he know where the iron box was located? And Pauline Innis did recover the iron box as she recorded several times in her books.
Eh...? JEFFERSON Davis, of course... 1st Lt. Newton Hazlewood, CSA first gave the pages of FIGURES to Clayton Hazlewood to make copies of; NO BEALE TREASURE "Story" (until later). 1st Lt. Hazlewood thought "it" was buried on HIS land near Buford's Depot in Montvale... towards the Peaks of Otter. One story that PV had was that COFFINS of CSA GOLD, SILVER (BARS), & Jewelry donated to the "Southern Cause" (as CSA dead soldiers) were off-loaded at Thaxton Switch, put on wagons. Such was buried in a barn, then taken up... heading for the Peaks of Otter (Harkening Hill "area"), then FINALLY sent to Lexington, Va. & VMI. "Buried in a VAULT, 6' under"... DOES sound like a GRAVE... T. "Stonewall" J.'s Grave in Lexington, Va...? MAYBE! THOMAS JACKSON... THOMAS JEFFERSON!!!
TY for your question... CH had NO info from Hazlewood about a "Beale" Treasure, ONLY a TREASURE! When the Hart Bros. went to Ward, "et al", THEN & ONLY THEN, was there "info" about the "Beale Expedition", Thomas J. Beale, R.M., etc. ONLY a "filler" to add "meat" to the pages of FIGURES! GH went to Santa Fe...? HAVE NOT read THAT, before... dunno.
Yes, he was... Father George (Sr.) lived with his son "Junior" in Washington, DC.
Was the Iron Box, a "plant"... sorta like "salting" the "Treasure"...?There was NO mention of an iron box in the HART PAPERS, so what was the origin of this iron box?
I have considered that iron box suspect as to be "the iron box".
What was the provenance?
Also the Harts came up with the "Jefferson" for the "J" in the Thomas J Beale character name in the job pamphlet.
How did they determine this?
An autographed copy of "GOLD IN THE BLUE RIDGE"?Do you know who purchased the desk of George L. Hart, Sr.'s desk and what he found inside the desk?
Did they have an apartment at the WATERGATE like Pauline Innis?Yes, he was... Father George (Sr.) lived with his son, "Junior" in Washington, DC.
Nah... it WAS in Georgetown, tho.Did they have an apartment at the WATERGATE like Pauline Innis?
The narrative in the Beale Papers makes these alleged journeys transporting the weighted wagons of gold and silver as a simple endeavor, not so much a "perilous adventure".I don't think a lot of hopefuls fully realize what all it would have taken to make the two trips during the period and to actually pull off this huge undertaking in secret. Not saying it wasn't possible or that it wasn't done, just saying that it would have taken a considerable amount of planning, resources, and advanced preparation at both ends.
I don't think a lot of hopefuls fully realize what all it would have taken to make the two trips during the period and to actually pull off this huge undertaking in secret. Not saying it wasn't possible or that it wasn't done, just saying that it would have taken a considerable amount of planning, resources, and advanced preparation at both ends.
It does prove that wagons traveled the Old Sante Fe trail years before William Bechnell. If the story is true?
Just like C. Columbus was a couple hundred years late being the first white man to come upon the shores of the US of A. Does not matter anyway as the Indian was on shore waving them to come ashore.
"US of A"...? I thought it was Central America...It does prove that wagons traveled the Old Sante Fe trail years before William Bechnell. If the story is true?
Just like C. Columbus was a couple hundred years late being the first white man to come upon the shores of the US of A. Does not matter anyway as the Indian was on shore waving them to come ashore.