Rattlesnake Dick Trinity Mountain Gold

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Rattlesnake Dick Trinity Mountain Gold

Lost Treasure CA • Shasta County County
Description
1856 outlaw legend — Richard "Rattlesnake Dick" Barter's gang buried $40,000 in Yreka–Klamath gold bullion in the Trinity Mountains after George Skinner was killed and Wells Fargo recovered only half the mule-train robbery.
Historical Notes
Rattlesnake Dick Barter led a Placer County horse-theft and stage-robbing gang after the Tom Bell outlaw era of the mid-1850s. When Skinner could not move the heavy bullion down Trinity Mountain passes, he buried half near Nevada City before a Wells Fargo posse killed him and recovered $40,600. Barter and Cyrus Skinner searched weeks for the remaining cache before Barter died in an 1859 shootout near Auburn. Legends of America notes the gold may still lie somewhere in the vast Shasta–Trinity National Forest.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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