Case file · Folklore / legend
The Lost Adams Diggings
From the early 1860s a teamster called Adams told of a canyon in western New Mexico so rich in gold that nuggets lay in the stream, where Apache warriors killed most of his party; he never found it again.
1864 CE · 34.10, -108.70 · status: legend
The sceptical view
There is no independent record of the massacre or the canyon, and the tale changed with every retelling.