Idaho lost-mine folklore with a grim ending
Around 1880 two prospectors, one remembered only as Casper, struck gold in the Moscow Mountains and built a wheelbarrow out of whiskey-barrel staves to haul their diggings. The mine is said to have given up twenty thousand dollars before the partners fell out and walked away, and the one who came back years later never found it again. In 1939 a mining company opened an abandoned working that matched the old description, and found human bones inside it.
Moscow Mountains about ten miles from Potlatch (Latah County, ID)
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