Twin 500-Pound Gold Ingots East of Rapid City

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Twin 500-Pound Gold Ingots East of Rapid City

Lost Treasure SD • Pennington County County
Description
Rapid City fringe legend of two 500-pound gold ingots buried in a small wash about ten miles east of town — one of the boldest physical claims in Great Plains treasure literature.
Historical Notes
W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasures of the Great Plains repeats the twin ingot tale for the Rapid City eastern foothills. The story imagines smelter or assay-office bars cached on the prairie margin rather than in quartz tunnels. Coordinates mark the eastern Pennington County wash country between Rapid City and the Badlands escarpment.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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