Missouri River Larned Ashore Gold Cache

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Missouri River Larned Ashore Gold Cache

Lost Treasure ND • Burleigh County County
Description
1863 Heart River battle epilogue legend that a trader recovered a boat compartment of gold nuggets and dust worth perhaps $100,000, cached part ashore on the Missouri, and later appeared flush with pocket gold.
Historical Notes
Horatio M. Larned told historian George Kingsbury that an unnamed man found the miners' concealed storage in the sunken mackinaw boat after the massacre. Unable to haul everything, he supposedly buried the remainder on the riverbank while Dakota and Arikara parties gathered only scattered pouch dust. InForum and State Historical Society accounts treat the ashore cache as a companion mystery to the false-bottom boat gold at the Heart River mouth.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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