Shot through with dramatic plot twists, colorful personalities, and insights into the nature of obsession, this rollicking account will appeal to fans of The Orchid Thief and Born to Run. The next year, Fenn self-published his memoir, 'The Thrill of the Chase.' To get families into the great outdoors, Fenn put a little incentive inside his book a distinctive 24-line poem. I saw him speak on a zoom call and it convinced me to buy the book. Barbarisi eventually dropped out of the hunt, but he interviews the searcher who discovered the treasure chest in a Wyoming forest in June 2020 and gets an up-close look at its contents. When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan. Interweaving his own search efforts with profiles of fellow hunters, Barbarisi documents how the “Fenn blogosphere” helped turn the treasure hunt from a “lark” into a “community hazard.” One man spent $30,000 digging holes in a state park, and at least five people died searching for the treasure, including a Colorado pastor who was looking in an area Barbarisi had explored the week before.
These two ladies are buried in the Bassett Family Cemetery across the street from. The waterfall is named after the French Soldier. The sign was the name of the waterfall - Vermillion Waterfall. Photo of a soldier at the waterfall reading a sign that he tripped over. Following the nine clues in Fenn’s cryptic poem (“Begin it where warm waters halt.”), Barbarisi started searching for the treasure in 2017. When Forrest Fenn wrote his memoir, he didnt want the dead to be forgotten.
Journalist Barbarisi ( Dueling with Kings) chronicles in this captivating account the exploits of an eccentric community of treasure hunters who scoured the Rocky Mountains from 2010 to 2020 in search of New Mexico art dealer Forrest Fenn’s hidden chest of gold and jewels. The launch of Forrest Fenn’s treasure hunt coincided with the release of his 2010 self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase.