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🗓️ 31 May 2020
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0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back everyone to |
0:28.3 | to one thousand heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries. |
0:32.4 | Today's story, The Victoria Peak Treasure Legend, Part 1. |
0:38.2 | The San Andreas Mountain Range in southwestern New Mexico |
0:41.6 | is home to a lot of old West stories and legends, but none so |
0:45.3 | mysterious as the legend of Victorio's gold. This story is quite incredible. |
0:50.4 | It involves a number of characters, starting with a renegade Mescaleiro Apache chief named Victorio, followed by a Catholic monk named Father La Rue who, after being told of a fortune in gold by a dying soldier, escaped a Mexico City convent |
1:06.4 | and headed north to start his own colony of gold-seeking believers. |
1:10.4 | Then there's the story of a three-day battle between components of the sixth and ninth cavalry and |
1:15.0 | Renegate Apaches at a high rocky outcropping that the soldiers called Victoria's Peak in the |
1:21.0 | Rattlesnake infested Umbri Obation, now a part of White Sands Missile Range. |
1:26.0 | And it contains the story of a 60 billion dollar treasure in gold bullion, |
1:31.0 | rumored to be the largest undiscovered treasure in North America, until |
1:35.6 | individuals working in the highest echelons of our government seized it to line their own |
1:40.5 | pockets. |
1:42.0 | That resulting allegedly in an immense U.S. government |
1:44.8 | cover-up, a cover-up that involved two American presidents, the dozens of Army |
1:49.3 | Air Force and CIA officers, and at least two dozen murders, one of which was the murder of a 1930s |
1:55.4 | prospector named Milton Doc Noss who, along with his wife, discovered the |
2:00.8 | treasure and held the only legal rights to the mine's location |
2:04.3 | until the US military performed a land grab and took those rights away. |
2:09.4 | Whereupon the government actively began pursuing the treasure themselves going so far as to build a |
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