Documented 1857 tale; Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872)
In 1857 a dying man showed a doctor a chunk of dull reddish "cement" shot through a third full of gold, from a ledge somewhere in the Deadman Creek country. Mark Twain gave the tale its wings in Roughing It, whole camps burned summers hunting it, and the ledge has stayed lost for a century and a half.
Deadman Creek country near Mammoth (Mono County)
See it on the map
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
