“I said, ‘that’s my dog,'” Bohnert recalled Monday. That's when he saw the picture one of the rescuers took. Could it be Abby?īohnert doubted it, but still curious, he went to the cave site near his rural Missouri home. Two months later, he got a text from a neighbor: People exploring a nearby cave found a dog.
Sunken treasure in the Mississippi.Jeff Bohnert had all but given up on seeing his poodle-hound mix again after she went missing in early June.
Unfortunately, the exact location of the burial spot died with the outlaw himself, and so the treasure is quite possibly still there. With so many raids in this area, he had amassed a considerable fortune, but because he couldn’t keep it in a bank, he likely buried it near the cave. At the time of his death in 1863, Bolin was only 21 years old. It was also the area in which Bolin was later trapped and killed by a Union soldier commissioned to capture the outlaw. “Murder Rocks,” on the Pine Mountain south of Kirbyville, is also known as “Alf Bolin Rocks” due to it being the location where Bolin and his gang of outlaws often hid and then robbed and sometimes murdered unfortunate travelers. There is definitely a good chance that Bolin’ had buried his loot in these hills. The cave had been used as a marker to the nearby buried cache. The story is that, many years ago, a man came to a farm on Highway JJ south of Kirbyville in Taney County looking for a treasure that Bolin had buried near a cave in the Fox Creek country containing gold and silver from his many robberies. 6.Ělf Bolin's outlaw loot.Īlf Bolin was a Missouri outlaw from the mid-1800’s. The cave is located near Galena, Missouri in Stone County. Hints of the treasure over the years occurred when he would periodically pull a $10 gold piece from his pocket, hand it to his daughter and say, "See here what I’ve found.” Many thought this cave might be where the treasure was hidden. It was where he was eventually laid to rest upon his death. His family never knew where, although there was a nearby cave he visited frequently. Turns out, Keithly had found gold in California, come home and hid it somewhere. He was gone for around three years, then suddenly reappeared and returned to Missouri to preach and wander as before. During one of these disappearances, he apparently had gone to California to search for gold during the rush. Parson Keithly was an odd character from the mid-nineteenth century who roamed the Ozark countryside, preaching on Sundays and wandering the area with his dog and his gun the rest of the time, sometimes disappearing for days. Many have searched for the mine over the years, but it has never been found. The legend of the mine, however, remains, still believed to be in the vicinity of the junction of the Jacks Fork and Current rivers. His daughter married and moved west, and no one in Shannon County ever saw then again. He never made it farther east than Missouri and eventually died, never to return to the Jacks Fork area.
When he discovered the mine was actually on another man’s property, instead of buying the land and thus revealing the mine’s location, he and his daughter sealed up the mine and moved east, planning to return at a later time and offer to purchase the land for farming. He had a mining claim, but in an effort to keep the mine secret, it was actually on a tract of land a couple of miles away from the mine. He made several trips to New Orleans during this time, unloading nearly $50,000 worth of copper over a three or four year period. In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Joseph Slater is said to have known the location of a hidden copper mine a few miles northwest of Jacks Fork near the Current River.
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