Do you like stories of buried treasure? Here’s one that you may not have heard. According to a legend from the Wild West, back in the 1870s, notorious outlaw Jesse James and his gang stole millions of dollars worth of gold bullion from a Mexican general. The men proceeded to bury their treasure somewhere in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.
Rumor had it that Jesse had scratched a secretly-coded map on an old bucket and left it as a marker. One source says that after Jesse’s death, his brother Frank James bought a farm near the Wichita Mountains and spent the rest of his life searching for the treasure, but he never did find it.
Sometime in the 1950s, a local man did dig up a bucket and some picks buried in a field in those mountains. The bucket had some markings scratched on it. So far,…