Pembina Sam Bass Collins Outlaw Gold

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Pembina Sam Bass Collins Outlaw Gold

Lost Treasure ND • Pembina County County
Description
Pembina border-town legend of William Collins — brother of Big Springs robber Joel Collins — hiding Sam Bass gang gold while tending bar at Jim White's saloon straddling the U.S.–Canada line before the 1878 post-office shootout.
Historical Notes
The September 1877 Big Springs holdup gave each of six bandits about 500 twenty-dollar gold pieces; Joel Collins died in a posse fight with $20,000 recovered. William Collins fled north as "William Gale," working in Pembina until Deputy Marshal William Anderson ambushed him in Charles Cavileer's post office on November 8, 1878. Both men died in the exchange; treasure writers speculate Collins still had uncaptured Big Springs coins hidden near the Red River outlaw corridor.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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