Thoen Stone Ezra Kind Lost Gold

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Thoen Stone Ezra Kind Lost Gold

Lost Treasure SD • Lawrence County County
Description
Spearfish Lookout Mountain legend of Ezra Kind's 1834 sandstone inscription — seven prospectors came for gold in 1833 and all but Kind were "killed by Ind beyond the high hill," decades before Custer's 1874 expedition.
Historical Notes
Louis Thoen found the carved slab in 1887; it names De Lacompt, G.W. Wood, T. Brown, R. Kent, Wm. King, and Indian Crow among the dead. Historians dispute authenticity, but the stone implies a pre-rush bonanza hidden "beyond the high hill" in the northern Black Hills. The original Thoen Stone is displayed at the Adams Museum in Deadwood with a monument at the end of St. Joe Street in Spearfish.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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