Rapid City Limestone Cave Gold Cache

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Rapid City Limestone Cave Gold Cache

Lost Treasure SD • Pennington County County
Description
Rapid City legend of roughly $50,000 in raw gold hidden in limestone caves outside town — a Pennington County tale linked to the 1876 rush margins and Wind Cave country formations.
Historical Notes
Regional guidebooks place a fifty-thousand-dollar raw-gold cache in cave systems flanking Rapid City without identifying the original hider. The Black Hills limestone belt and cave springs around Rapid Creek fueled prospector camps and later tourist cave discoveries. Coordinates center on Rapid City as the gateway to the cave-and-cache folklore of the eastern hills.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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