Kountze Big Thicket Outlaw Hoard — Hardin County

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Kountze Big Thicket Outlaw Hoard — Hardin County

Lost Treasure TX • Hardin County County
Description
Hardin County legend of outlaw loot buried in the Big Thicket near Kountze — the county seat on the edge of the impenetrable pine-hardwood forest northwest of Beaumont.
Historical Notes
Kountze is the Hardin County seat and gateway to the Big Thicket National Preserve. The thicket sheltered deserters, moonshiners, and Reconstruction-era bandits who figure in multi-million-dollar hoard legends. Related entry: "Big Thicket Gold and Jewels — Liberty County" documents the $1,500,000 jewel variant northeast of Houston. This pin covers the Hardin County / Kountze portion of Big Thicket outlaw-cache folklore northwest of Beaumont. Coordinates mark Kountze at the Big Thicket edge in Hardin County northwest of Beaumont.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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