Far West Captain $800,000 Gold Little Bighorn Mouth — Big Horn County

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Far West Captain $800,000 Gold Little Bighorn Mouth — Big Horn County

Lost Treasure MT • Big Horn County County
Description
Little Bighorn mouth legend of $800,000 in gold buried downriver of the tributary junction — where the Far West steamboat captain supposedly cached bullion during the 1876 Yellowstone campaign.
Historical Notes
The Rocker Box Big Horn County page records $800,000 in gold buried probably downriver of the mouth of the Little Bighorn by the captain of the Far West, citing Guide to Treasure in Montana-Wyoming. The Far West sternwheeler supported the 1876 Yellowstone Expedition and Custer column logistics on the Bighorn and Yellowstone rivers — a corridor Billings-area treasure writers treat as road-agent and riverboat cache country. Coordinates approximate the Little Bighorn River mouth where it joins the Bighorn River southeast of Billings. River corridor — legend only.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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