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Victorio’s Lost Gold

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Victorio’s Lost Gold

August 21, 2026

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W.C. Jameson recounts a West Texas legend centered on Chief Victorio, the Mescalero Apache leader, and a hidden cache of gold said to lie in a cave in the Eagle Mountains near Indian Hot Springs and Eagle Springs. The story is framed through the recollections of Miss Myrtle Love, a Ysleta High…

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