Cossatot River Pig Pen Princess Gold

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Cossatot River Pig Pen Princess Gold

Lost Treasure AR • Polk County County
Description
Ouachita foothills legend of the "Pig Pen Princess" and lost gold along the Cossatot River in Polk and Howard counties — tied to W. C. Jameson's Arkansas treasure anthologies and local naming folklore.
Historical Notes
Treasure author W. C. Jameson popularized a Polk County tale about a reclusive woman called the Pig Pen Princess who supposedly knew the location of Civil War–era gold along the wild Cossatot. The story blends eccentric hermit lore with Confederate payroll traditions in the rugged country between Mena and the Cossatot River State Park corridor. No period map marks the site; hunters focus on remote bends and abandoned homesteads above the Cossatot gorge.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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