Placer County outlaw history (Richard Barter, the 1856 Trinity mule-train robbery)
In 1856 the Barter gang took roughly $80,000 in gold from the Wells Fargo mule train hauling out of the Trinity mines. Half was carried south and spent; the other half was buried near Auburn by an accomplice who was killed before he could say where. Placer County has been digging for it ever since Rattlesnake Dick himself died in an 1859 shootout without the answer.
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