Cort Thompson Chitina Card Sharp Cache

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Cort Thompson Chitina Card Sharp Cache

Lost Treasure AK • Chugach Census Area County
Description
Copper River corridor legend of Denver card sharp Cort Thompson burying $50,000 in crooked-game gold near Chitina after a brawl with Soapy Smith allies forced him to flee the Alaska gold-rush towns.
Historical Notes
Cort Thompson, husband of Denver madam Mattie Silks, reportedly won a fortune in rigged poker during the Alaska rush before running afoul of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith's circle. Compiled lore says he buried roughly fifty thousand dollars in gold in or near Chitina before fleeing south, leaving no confirmed recovery record. The story links Interior railroad and copper-country boomtowns with Skagway outlaw networks in a single buried-cache narrative.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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