Steinheimer's Treasure — Three Knobs (Rogers)

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Steinheimer's Treasure — Three Knobs (Rogers)

Lost Treasure TX • Bell County County
Description
Rogers area "Three Knobs" — where Steinheimer legend says a Comanche war party killed his escorts and wounded him with an arrow after he buried bullion at Three Forks in 1838.
Historical Notes
After burying his treasure at Three Forks, Steinheimer traveled east across the Blackland prairie toward St. Louis. Clay Coppedge places the Comanche attack at Three Knobs near present-day Rogers in eastern Bell County. Steinheimer survived, wrote a map to his sweetheart in St. Louis, and never recovered. A search party she sent could not find the brass-spike marker tree. Dozens of subsequent digs in Bell County have yielded no authenticated hoard. Coordinates approximate the Rogers / Three Knobs countryside east of Temple.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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