In 1899, a Southern Pacific train was stopped in the desert night near Cochise Station. Minutes later, sixty thousand dollars in fresh-minted gold coins had vanished.

Constable Burt Alvord led the search… but the truth behind the robbery was far stranger than anyone imagined. From midnight gunfights to jailbreaks, from the hellhole of Yuma Prison to a mysterious disappearance in Panama, Alvord’s story blurs the line between lawman and outlaw.

More than two million dollars in today’s money may still be hidden out here — somewhere among the mesquite, boulders, and dry washes of Cochise County.

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Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of Arizona by W.C. Jameson

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