Anson Stevens-Bollen 12:00 AM “All of the stories that mingle among these pages are as true to history as one man can average out that truth, considering the fact that one of my natural instincts is to embellish just a little. Nevertheless, the story about my treasure chest is true, and if it doesn’t stir your spirit then I hope at least it brings a smile in one of your dreams.” Forrest Fenn,
The Thrill of the Chase The story of Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure began with words on a page in 2010 and a poem subject to interpretation. By its end a decade later, thousands possibly hundreds of thousands of people had searched for gold (metaphoric and otherwise) in the wilderness. Along the way, outlandish rumors grew, lives were lost and questions, not to mention litigation, mounted. Fenn took the answers to some of those questions with him when he died last September at the age of 90, just a few months after revealing someone had finally tracked down his secre