1370b

a Forty-niner, returning with a wagon train from California, has with him a fortune in gold dust *

Buck and his companions are attacked by Indians, Buck’s companions are killed and Buck is mortally wounded **

buck, alone and near death, buries his store of gold dust and draws a map of the cache on a water canteen, X ***

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