Adams Lost Canyon of Gold near Arizona & New Mexico border. Clues exist, can it be found?

Adams Lost Canyon of Gold near Arizona & New Mexico border. Clues exist, can it be found?

The story of Adams, a freighter, that was shown a canyon full of gold nuggets somewhere in the Arizona or New Mexico border area. He was the only one of the expedition to survive to tell about it. The canyon has not been found again.

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20 Comments

  1. Jag One on August 20, 2022 at 11:41 am

    Gold was never found! It was about stealing Native land.

  2. X VSJ on August 20, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Great Story Thank you for sharing 👍

  3. moonshinefuel on August 20, 2022 at 11:43 am

    It’s how it was, Gold used to be found above ground, all gone now. Now you gotta dig for it since the hills have been scoured for the easy pickins. Indigenous people seemed to have boundaries but didn’t view the lands as personal property per-se. And Gold obviously viewed quite differently that westerners, risking their lives in the early days and often paying the price.

  4. Bill Luney on August 20, 2022 at 11:44 am

    Sounds like the movie. McKenna gold

  5. Richard Helit on August 20, 2022 at 11:52 am

    To cool

  6. Kassandra London on August 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    Not a real exciting opening on this video

  7. Catlife on August 20, 2022 at 12:01 pm

    Cool story

  8. Duane Short on August 20, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    I KNOW WHERE THAT MINE IS AT ITS ON PHELPS DODGE MINING PROPERTY GOLD NUGETS SIZE OF HEN EGGS APACHES WOULD KILL THEM

  9. Matthew Maxcy on August 20, 2022 at 12:15 pm

    Anyone know the town or area the fort was where they ended up and guy killed the 2 apache

  10. Todd Eaton on August 20, 2022 at 12:19 pm

    Would 300lbs of gold be about the size of a beach ball?

    From the warm springs apache village, opposite the chiefs caves is a seasonal creek bed descending to a flat area matching this descrip, at the bottom of that is what looks like a big anthill inside which is a round pool of water plugged by an immersed gold sphere appearing to be about this size.
    From there on the valley is filled with dirt until terminating at a solid rock vertical wall on the river, and the only approach & descent to the river from the plain to the south is across a great hill of coarse red stones.

    How much would that much gold be worth today?

  11. Native Pride on August 20, 2022 at 12:20 pm

    I found this area on google maps on satellite view and I came across something very interesting

  12. Cracker Jax on August 20, 2022 at 12:20 pm

    This was found years ago. It’s listed on the NM geological and state engineer map.

  13. GrizZ Wald on August 20, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    Let’s find it.

  14. AV Adams on August 20, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Good summary of one of the main accounts. There’s a lot more to the search that Adams and others engaged in later after the danger subsided. Quite a few put their stock in this area where Ron spent many, many years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8vH65nxrA The Books "Black Range Tales" and "Yaqui Gold and Apache Silver" have a lot of this, and were both written by people of the same time, or close to it.

  15. Lucky Baldwin on August 20, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    A canyon full of gold nuggets sounds like the Doc Thorne deposit. I wonder if the two stories are related.

  16. david murphy on August 20, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    1973 I was in Prescott VA a couple weeks with Delbert Light. Exxon station Winslow. He was an Exxon explorer… He found the hearth. It was in New Mexico. Indian showed him. Said there was a pencil eraser size nugget in the hearth still to this day unless someone got grabby… He explained a lot of found treasure. Lady from new Jersey drinking at the wagon wheel Chino valley in the 80s said she had info on the wickenburg stage Robbery… She came in with gold rounds and we never saw her again..

  17. james terrell on August 20, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    Have you heard of the Guadalupe mountains Indian mine?

  18. Iggnant1 on August 20, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    I’m gonna go find it.

  19. Iz M on August 20, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    Let’s go!

  20. B. R. Atkins on August 20, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    Geronimo the great indian said the richest gold was in the Guadalupe mountains.

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