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Grapevine Hidden Treasure? The Trail Just Got a Lot Less Rocky Edited from articles in the Associated Press and The Guardian, with smart comments added by Ralph Finch In mid-June, various newspapers reported: “A 13th-century bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found.” The chest had been tucked away by art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, an Air Force veteran turned art dealer, who hid his treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. Hundreds of thousands have hunted for the chest, many quit their jobs to search for it, and at least five people died looking for it. The clues to the treasure’s whereabouts were hidden in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography, The Thrill of the Chase. Fenn said: “It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago. The poem in my book led him to the precise spot.” Fenn said he hid the treasure as a way to tempt people to get into the wilderness and give them a chance to launch an oldfashioned adventure and expedition for riches. He said the chest weighs twenty pounds and its contents another twenty. "I give a heartfelt thank you to Forrest for his wild and wonderful adventure that gave me new places to explore, peacefulness, joy, wonder, and a challenge like no other," one searcher commented. TOP: The treasure map and poem with clues. BELOW: The chest of riches and Forrest Fenn.
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