Lame Johnny Missing Homestake Gold Bars

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Lame Johnny Missing Homestake Gold Bars

Lost Treasure SD • Fall River County County
Description
1878 Black Hills legend of two large Homestake gold bars never recovered after the Canyon Springs Monitor stage robbery — road agents seized 700 pounds of bullion, but most loot was later found while the bars vanished near the old stage station country.
Historical Notes
On September 26, 1878, outlaws ambushed the steel-lined Monitor treasure coach at Canyon Springs Station southwest of Deadwood, killing passenger Hugh Campbell and wounding guards. Homestake and the stage line recovered over sixty percent of the haul, yet two heavy gold bars from the supposedly impregnable safe remained missing. Cornelius "Lame Johnny" Donahue was lynched near Buffalo Gap and Lame Johnny Creek; treasure writers tie the unrecovered bars to caches near the robbery route.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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