I will make this simple for you comprehension.
James Beverly Ward, who was in a duel with Thomas Beale over a slight to Julia Hancock was James Beverly Ward's grandfather. Robert Morriss was Ward's uncle by marriage. John Sherman, who printed the 1885 Beale Papers was a cousin of Ward, and owned the LYNCHBERG VIRGINIAN, the only newspaper that advertised the Beale job pamphlet.
James Beverly Ward applied for and received the copyright from the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS for the Beale Papers.
Ward was also related to the various branches of the Risqué extended family- Hutter, Kennerly, Otey, Hancock, and the Bufords.
Julia Hancock, whom the duel was fought, married William Clark, of Lewis and Clark.
Ward is far from being a "fantasy character".
If you have read this thread, you would be aware of the several origins of events contained in the Beale story, some from journals, some from events that occurred to the Risqué extended family members.
The 1885 Beale Papers are an eclectic potpourri pot-boiler with a published purpose of profit.
And I will make it even simpler for you...yes Ward is a fantasy character as much as the tales that are crafted within it....you said so yourself, its a dressed up tale using some local guys and gals to play the roles.
and now you are flip flopping still after the original statements you made, denying the Beale leads to two troves.
but there is a Ward now all of a sudden, and they made up the whole thing for 50 cents. But he isnt a fantasy character...no he's "Real"
I read the thread and re-read the thread....you flip flop all over the place asserting your collection of history, when a dozen others also show you their history lessons, yet you still wont budge
And you still deny that there is the Arizona connection, even though there are previous Beale's galavanting out west that are mentioned in argument against your theory on the first page, of your own post.
I read it myself.....there is clearly a group going out west at those times at the orders of the KGC, and there are also some interesting similarities in these works you said.....
But why would someone who was making a fortune selling pamphlets, do so using his own name to lure someone to an empty trove.....?
No these names are crafted as much as the whole puzzle is crafted around some other similar tales....used to mask their hints, clues, and other forms of ciphers.....
Funny you said miles and dates , in reference to the hidden distances you found similarities to in the number 1817......
did you ever try to find out how far that is from Virginia and where it winds up being.....??
If you did you would have found the locality of the Vault then, at least the AZ ones from where they got their stashes,
But you didnt even try....why overlook the obvious ECS?
Does the History of the men tell you which way to turn to locate the two troves?
You are accomplishing the feat of gathering more books on a shelf and then arguing about them regardless of who wrote them?
I think you have denied yourself the chance to see the truth that there are crafted tales interwoven into these affairs and somehow they knew exactly who to use as a front for their operations.
In fact there were so many cities that the Federal Investigators had to travel to, in order to catch Reavis after he was caught planting evidence around the country to prove he owned these mines and he was clearly Confederate KGC as well.
So who is to say that these characters from the Beale Codes, the Second Editions, were merely rewritten and altered versions of the originals.
