Lost Texas Ranger Treasure — Kimble County

Kimble County sits where the Texas Hill Country breaks toward the Edwards Plateau; Texas Ranger companies under captains such as John Coffee Hays and later frontier units patrolled the Llano River drainages against Comanche and outlaw bands. Ranger payroll and confiscated-plunder caches appear in multiple Hill Country counties when companies rotated posts before banking reached the frontier. Jameson's "lost Texas Ranger treasure" chapter places one such hoard in the Junction vicinity. No quartermaster receipt confirms a lost Ranger chest in Kimble County; the story persists in Great Plains and Texas anthology guides. Coordinates mark Junction at the county seat.