Is the Rocky Mountain’s Hidden Million Dollar Treasure in Montana?
“Get off the couch and the game rooms, leave your texting gadgets on the kitchen table, and head for the wonderful Montana outdoors.”
In 1988, Forrest Fenn was preparing to die. The millionaire art dealer had been diagnosed with cancer. Until then Fenn led an adventurous life and he wanted an adventurous death. After soul searching, he hatched a plan. He would stuff an antique bronze chest with some of the artifacts he spent his life collecting: 265 coins, pre-Columbian animal figures, gold dust, an antique dragon coat bracelet fixed with 250 some odd rubies, several diamonds, a 2,000-year-old Colombian necklace, and more — all valued at anywhere from one to five million dollars. He would carry this 42 pound chest into the wilderness — to a spot special to him — and then lay beside it, and die. Fenn hoped someday, another wild-eyed adventurer, would stumble across this remote spot, and find his bones, treasure, and autobiography.
But a miracle happened and he was cured. However, the idea of such a wide-scale treasure hunt stayed in the back of his mind. Finally in 2010, he traveled somewhere in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, or Montana and hid the trove. He released a six stanza poem in his autobiographical book The…
