num_pages: 164
description: This is a story about two young Cajuns that were on a mission up the Natchez Trace in search of a treasure of gold. The gold was buried in the earth near the Natchez Trace at a place the Indians called Big Hill, some two hundred miles up the trace from Natchez, Mississippi. This story of why the gold was at this location and who the owners were, is like many things in history that are lost forever. Since I was born in the county where it happened and heard firsthand about the black farm family while plowing the field, the pot of gold was caught on the plow and unearthed. The spot where they found the gold was pointed out to me when I was very young. I tried to find some information in the newspapers of that time in history. If there was any, it has eluded me. The news of it could have been squashed by the influence of the land-owners because of laws passed by our government that all gold would be owned by our banking system. There is some more history. The Indians called it Big Hill. Then it was known as Red Bud Springs, to this day as Kosciusko. Why would a town in the central part of Mississippi be named for polish general of our revolutionary war and honor him with a placard out near the courthouse square? Also, almost in sight of the treasure of gold is the home place of a very famous person, Oprah Winfrey in her earlier years. The place is known as the Buffalo Community. For those that are not aware of the Natchez Trace and how it happened to be there, the Indians of that time established it as a trace south from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi. Quite a feat, for this was a great wilderness at the time. The white man made great use of it, first by foot and horseback, then wagon. The older of the young Cajuns was a gambler by trade in New Orleans, from time to time on the river boats of that day. He acquired the map of gold location from a down and out carpetbagger from a New York way.
language: English
title: Searching For The Gold
titlecomplete: Searching For The Gold
publisher: Authorhouse