Treasure And Treasure Hunting In Law And History

The first comprehensive history of magical treasure hunting from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, revealing a magical universe of treasure spirits, and wizards who tried to deal with them. Combining history and anthropology, this study sees treasure hunting as an expression of shifting economic mentalities and changing ideas about history.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Book of Buried Treasure" (Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day) by Ralph Delahaye Paine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.

Now, for the very first time in publishing history, all the Laws, Rules and Regulations that govern undiscovered lost treasures are presented state by state and from coast to coast. Read this book and learn the ins and outs of the Laws that could both make you a fortune and subsequently take that fortune away from you as well. Wouldn't it be devastating to find a long lost BILLION DOLLAR TREASURE to only have it confiscated by law makers, regulators or even worse, academia? Make sure you are prorecting yourself and the Lost Treasure you find by knowing all about Treasure and Artifact Recovery Law. J. Hutton Pulitzer commands ExpeditionHistory.org and TreasureForce. COMMANDER plans and manages missions all around the globe with TreasureForce, a team of professional explorers who solve ancient clues and mysteries that lead to fantastic finds of lost or forgotten history; discoveries that help decipher our collective past and either prove or disprove the legends passed down from generation to generation. Expedition History is a series packed with a wealth of science, technology, history, education and adventure, featuring an eclectic team of multi-national explorers, historians, writers, and researchers as they pick, identify, and research common legends. They are real people, on real missions, who encounter real danger, in order to re-discover Lost Legends, Lost Civilizations, and /or Real Treasure while uncovering Lost History. As an Inventor, Pulitzer is globally one of the foremost Inventors in modern times, recognized as one of the "Top 50 Inventors in the World", and as an Author, he has published over 200 individual titles

Provides practical information and resources for acquiring owner unknown land, with step-by-step instructions for identifying the land, finding the owner, and acquiring title

Relates true stories of treasure hunters, discussing the tools they use, secret codes that have led to treasures, laws and regulations regarding treasure hunting, and some lost treasures still waiting to be found.