Gil Longworth Far West Bighorn Gold Nuggets Burial — Custer County

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Gil Longworth Far West Bighorn Gold Nuggets Burial — Custer County

Lost Treasure MT • Custer County County
Description
June 1876 legend of Gil Longworth's Bozeman gold-nugget shipment buried ashore by Far West steamboat captain Grant Marsh — freight guards killed by Sioux before Marsh could recover the cache near the Little Bighorn campaign rivers.
Historical Notes
James M. Deem's Bighorn River treasure study cites Roy Norvill's account of wagon driver Longworth and guards Dickson and Jergens loading Bozeman gold onto Marsh's Far West on June 26, 1876, then fleeing overland as Marsh buried the nuggets fearing Sioux attack. All three guards were killed; Marsh never retrieved the hoard, and the 1879 Bozeman freight company had closed by the time he inquired. Coordinates approximate the Bighorn River corridor east of Miles City toward the Little Bighorn battle country. River and tribal lands — legend only.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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