![]() He's also had a few controversies, including that he may have dug up sacred Native American ruins to find items to sell and that that may be how he initially made his fortune (later he even bought an entire Native American ruins site). The book certainly isn't for everyone, or really for many at all now, but I'm very glad I read it after following along with the whole saga from the sidelines for ten years. Therefore, the mystery is still there even if the treasure isn't.įorrest writes with his own very distinct style and instead of trying to encompass his entire life focuses only on a collection of various stories throughout that gives you a flavour of who he was, which was an industrious man with a healthy ego who liked humour, adventure and plain intelligence but who also had a strong philosophical and melancholic bent. The finder, who had wanted to stay anonymous, decided to reveal himself but still wouldn't reveal the location or any other major answers. Forrest announced he would not reveal the location or the answer to any of the clues, except to say that it was found in Wyoming, and then he died right after. It took a decade and some deaths and near misses from misguided searchers venturing into dangerous areas, but the treasure was found in 2020. Oh, and there were some other hints hidden throughout the book if you could figure them out. Whoever could correctly decipher it and follow his instructions would be led to the treasure box. Then he published this book, which is mostly just a memoir of various stories from his life, but also included a poem vaguely describing the hidden treasure and how to find it. Then he slowly got old and despite the cancer not returning, with age the thought of one day dying regardless led him to revisit the treasure hiding idea and when he was around 80, sometime around 2010, he finally went and hid the box full of treasure valued at a few million dollars somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. But, anyway, he beat the odds and survived the cancer so the plan didn't materialise. ![]() He didn't care if it took hundreds of years before someone found it. He had the idea to take some of the treasure he'd accumulated in the business dealings and scavenging and hide them to create a modern day treasure hunt, and then die there with his treasure so that whoever found the treasure would also find his bones. The doctors told him the prognosis wasn't good. Then he got cancer and thought he was going to die. It's a memoir by a quirky, charismatic and rascal of a man who grew up in nature in and around the Rocky Mountains (well western Texas, but they went to the Rockies for an extended stay every year), was a fighter pilot in Vietnam, and then became a self-made entrepreneur dealing arts and antiques (despite not really caring about the arts but had always loved scavenging for treasure and found the art business suited that interest) in New Mexico where he hobnobbed with politicians and assorted celebrities (Jackie O. Then, last year I heard the treasure had been found! What nerve for someone to go and do that before I ever got around to trying to! It gave me the belated push to finally order the book the entire hunt was announced in and read it, and while I might be a little late to the party of reading it now the hunt is over, I still really enjoyed it. ![]() Not enough to rush out and buy the book containing the clued poem and other hints (actually, anyone wanting to rush out and buy it would've had to rush out to a little bookstore in New Mexico, it being the only physical location it was sold, but I still could've rushed to the computer to order it sent to me), but enough to think about it off and on for a decade, and occasionally read up online on some others' adventures in trying to solve the puzzle and searching in person for the treasure. So when I heard about Forrest Fenn's real hidden treasure, gosh, about ten years ago now I was enamoured. Not enough to rush out and buy the book containing the clued poem and other hints (actually, anyone wanting to rush out and buy it would've had to rush out to a little bookstore in New Mexico, it being the only physical location it was sold, but I still could've rushed to the compu I've always loved adventure, since I was a little boy wanting to go explore the land where the wild things are. I've always loved adventure, since I was a little boy wanting to go explore the land where the wild things are.
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