Reynolds Gang Loot — South Park

In July 1864, Jim Reynolds led eight Confederate raiders in Colorado Territory's only Civil War invasion, robbing ranches and stage stops from Fairplay to Conifer of an estimated $5,000–$100,000. A posse killed Owen Singleterry (whose head was preserved in alcohol at Fairplay) and captured five bandits; Reynolds and two others escaped to New Mexico. Dying outlaw John Reynolds told Albert Brown the loot was in an old prospect hole above Deer Creek near timberline — $40,000 in greenbacks and three cans of gold dust, marked by a broken butcher-knife handle in a tree. Brown, forest fires, and detective David J. Cook searched without success. Cook published Reynolds' directions in 1897. The hoard is still sought in South Park between Fairplay and Como.