Henry Plummer Hidden Loot — Bannack

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Henry Plummer Hidden Loot — Bannack

Lost Treasure MT • Beaverhead County County
Description
1864 Bannack legend of Sheriff Henry Plummer promising vigilantes the location of $100,000 in buried road-agent gold if spared — hanged on his own gallows January 10, 1864, with the cache never recovered.
Historical Notes
Plummer and deputies Buck Stinson and Ned Ray were marched to the gallows Plummer had built and executed by Montana vigilantes after Erastus "Red" Yager implicated the sheriff as Innocents gang leader. Legend holds Plummer offered to reveal $100,000 in hidden loot along the Virginia City–Bannack freight roads; vigilantes ignored the plea. Historians debate Plummer's guilt, but the buried-gold tale remains central to Bannack State Park and the Road Agent Trail folklore.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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