Lost Cabin Gold Mine — Badwater Creek

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Lost Cabin Gold Mine — Badwater Creek

Lost Treasure WY • Johnson County County
Description
1860s Bighorn foothills legend of a rich placer and vein mine along Badwater Creek — Swedish miners reportedly banked $7,000 in gold at Laramie before Indians destroyed the cabin and most of the party.
Historical Notes
Albert Hulburt (also spelled Allan or Hurlbert), Cox, and Jones are named in early accounts as Californian miners who built a cabin and lost the strike to Indian attacks. Charles Clay told Douglas historian I.S. Bartlett that seven Swedes mined $7,000 in three days in late 1865 before ambushes left only two survivors who staggered to Fort Reno. A May 1866 party of twelve searchers vanished; 1895 skeletons on Badwater Creek fueled speculation they were the missing miners, not soldiers.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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