Marie Antoinette's $1 million necklace lies in the cold waters of the Pennichuck Brook just a few miles from downtown Nashua, New Hampshire. A steamboat, possibly the country's first one, still remains deep in Lake Morey near Fairlee, Vermont. A youn...
Modern-day counterparts of the Spanish conquistadors and the early nineteenth-century settlers still cling to the image of El Dorado. The folklore of the land still exerts its magical pull. The pickup truck has replaced the horse and mule, but treasu...
Legend and lore from the first settled region in the United States.
Blackbeard, the swashbuckling marauder, terrorized land and water from New Hampshire to Florida and left behind vast hidden loot. Pirates John Quelch and Joseph Bradd...
The dusty trails heading west of the Mississippi provided intrigue, adventure, and danger for the men and women who set out in search of a new life and fortune. Outlaws along with pioneers and forty-niners traveled this frontier often, finding and lo...
Comprised of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic States are rich in history, culture, legend, and lore. This twelfth book in W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure collection offers thirty tales of this region that ha...
Anyone with an interest in the history and lore surrounding treasure will want to read these books. -KLIATT ReviewBy putting many miles on his pickup truck, scouring many old books, journals, and maps, and interviewing countless Ozark natives, W.C. J...
Are millions of dollars' worth of ancient Incan treasures and Spanish coins buried just below the surface of the Pacific Ocean? Has anyone found the box of gold coins buried by a legendary giant in the Washington rain forest? Is a nobleman's family f...
This well-researched addition to treasure hunter, W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure series will ignite the imaginations of young readers and inspire them to go out and explore.
Legends of outlaw loot, pirate hoards, buried mines, and Santa Anna's pack-train gold. Contains 31 legends from the Lone Star State. As they relate to the lost fortunes of Native Americans, French pirates, Spanish explorers, and Mexican, German and S...
Carlos, a young man who has grown up near El Paso, Texas, succumbs to the allure of Mexico and crosses the Rio Grande to embark on a mythic journey. Bearing the scars of a cruel childhood, Carlos is eager to escape the United States, a country he fin...
Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have...
Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedl...
The prevailing evidence suggests that the fabulous Cobb County, Georgia, gold cache is still buried in the original location. To date, those who were known to have searched for it did not avail themselves of the most up-to-date state-of-the-art metal...
Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have...
For the past decade I have spent thousands of hours researching the lost treasures of the Civil War. In the process, I have discovered that many millions of dollars worth of gold and silver coin and bullion were cached during that historic conflict. ...
For generations, the state of Florida has attracted men and women in search of lost and buried treasures. The abundant legend and lore associated with the Sunshine State tells of pirates and buried booty, of Spanish explorers and sunken gold and silv...
Billy the Kid: The Lost InterviewsHistorian and professional treasure hunter W.C. Jameson has had many adventures, but none more exciting than the discovery of the original tapes of William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts, who went before the Governor of Ne...
The Big Bend of Texas is at once compelling and mysterious. It has been described as a rich and varied land of history, myth and legend, danger, ghosts, rugged landscapes, aridity, remoteness, spectacular vistas, and wildlife that either bit, stung, ...
Did Pat Garrett kill the wrong man in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, or did the outlaw known as Billy the Kid live on as William Henry Roberts until 1948? W.C. Jameson analyzes the evidence, including use of new technology to produce a compelling c...
Leading the reader through a series of amazing coincidences and details, this book presents startling evidence that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was never captured but escaped to live for decades, continue h...
Folk wisdom varies from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. For the most part, early Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound together by common geography, ...
Arkansas has long been a land rich in history and lore, and few of the events associated with The Natural State are more compelling and provocative than those associated with lost mines and buried treasures. Within these pages, award-winning author W...
Expert treasure hunter, W.C. Jameson introduces yet another intriguing collection of pirate tales featuring swashbuckling cutthroats,...
W.C. Jameson folklorist, geographer, musician, and on-set advisor on the Film National Treasure, tells the secrets of lost army payrolls and smuggled gold scattered about the countryside, nearly forgotten but awaiting discovery....