Bismarck Black Hills Freight Road Paymaster Cache

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Bismarck Black Hills Freight Road Paymaster Cache

Lost Treasure ND • Burleigh County County
Description
1878 Bismarck–Black Hills road legend of military cavalry scouting the freight route to Deadwood while treasure writers imagine road agents caching paymaster strongboxes between Fort Abraham Lincoln and Bear Butte.
Historical Notes
General Terry ordered 1878 summer reconnaissance from Bear Butte camp to protect Bismarck and Fort Pierre roads from hostile Sioux during the Black Hills gold rush. Fort Keogh Trail payroll losses and Heart River gold massacres made the Missouri–Heart River corridor North Dakota's densest nineteenth-century treasure folklore. Coordinates mark Bismarck as the eastern terminus of army-protected freight roads into the Black Hills.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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