Victorio Peak treasure

The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as Treasure of Victorio Peak, Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold found inside Victorio Peak in southern New Mexico. While there have been multiple documented expeditions to the peak, no gold has been officially recorded as being recovered from the site.

Theories abound on the origins of the alleged treasure, from eighteenth-century Spanish missionaries to wealth pilfered from Mexico during the reign of the Austrian puppet Emperor Maximilian. Some years after Doc Noss was killed, his wife Ova asserted a claim that she was entitled access to the cave in Victorio Peak and its contents. Eventually she brought her case to the military, but the alleged bonanza had vanished.^[1]

Many years following the Doc Noss discovery, local newspapers reported different accounts of possible treasure finds and hikers falling in the Hembrillo Basin. One story made headlines in the early 1990s after two bodies were found trapped inside the peak.^{[citation needed]}

The treasure was featured twice on the show Unsolved Mysteries. It was originally featured on May 10, 1989, and updated on February 11, 1990.^[2]

See also[]

• Battle of Hembrillo Basin
• White Sands Missile Range

References[]

Further reading[]

• Boswell, R. & Schweidel, D. (2008). What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak Cinco Puntos Press: El Paso, Texas. ISBN 978-1-933693-21-7
• Chandler, David L. (1975). 100 Tons of Gold Doubleday & Company, Inc: New York. ISBN 0-440-16687-X
• Jameson, W.C. (2014). Treasure Hunter: A Memoir of Caches, Curses, and Confrontations Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, MD. ISBN 978-1-58979-992-9
• Robin Abcarian (16 June 1991). "Treasure or Treachery?: Did 'Doc' Noss Really Find Caverns of Gold or Did He Pull Off a Hoax That Has Plagued His Kin for Years?". LA Times.
• James Coates (January 28, 1990). "QUEST FOR FABLED GOLD STARTS ANEW". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.