Scottsbluff Treasure Inn — Scotts Bluff County

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Scottsbluff Treasure Inn — Scotts Bluff County

Lost Treasure NE • Scotts Bluff County County
Description
Scottsbluff legend of $100,000 in gold and currency buried in the cellar of the burned Bolton Hotel — the "Treasure Inn" tale of the North Platte valley.
Historical Notes
Scottsbluff grew as a railroad and sugar-beet center beneath Scotts Bluff National Monument on the Nebraska Panhandle plateau. Early twentieth-century hotels and boarding houses handled ranch and railroad cash before modern banking reached the region. Folklore places one hundred thousand dollars in gold and currency in the cellar of the Bolton Hotel before fire destroyed the building. Searchers reportedly combed the ashes and surrounding lots without recovery. Jameson titles the tale "Scottsbluff Treasure Inn," preserving the hotel-cellar motif common in burned-structure treasure lore across the Great Plains. Coordinates mark downtown Scottsbluff.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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