Old Miner Don

I agree man. Time to hire some gunslingers.

They got Sarge killed in Mexico. And he for sure didn't deserve that.

I think for sure that the sound of the Thompson firing would have woken up you guys in camp. Only question is would Jacob have fired warning shots or simply eliminated the threat. I realize you're position of course. In the 1930's it was a completely different world. In Jed's days probably nobody would have gone looking for three guys that never returned home. In 2002 it's a good chance those three guys had family members that would have filed a missing persons report. And if people knew what the three guys were up to and where, then you and your mining crew could really have a problem on your hands. So you would have to be digging a deep hole in the middle of the night and make it look really good too lol. You would probably be okay as long as nobody brought the search dogs up. Wink 😜

Those are really cool! What kind of coin is the bug coin? If somebody made that out of a nickel they are flat out a 1st class engraver.

You didn't learn much from Jed and Sarge lol.

Saboteurs in '02? I would have loved to have been with you guys and riding shotgun.

Wow! Beautiful coin man.

The seller sounds like he could be one of the guys selling on (ouch)bay.

What?!?!? Paid almost 100 grand and never looked at them first? I thought you were going to say that he paid maybe $15 or $20 thousand dollars for those claims. I would love to talk to that guy. I have something here in Oregon that I could let him in on.

Dang it!

You are hoping that they will leave you alone? Well that's not what I'm hoping for lol. Let's see what the Thompson can still do! Too bad you didn't introduce Jacob to Night Vision. He would have gone crazy being able to see in the dark! Leave the spotlights off next time and just wait in the dark and see if they come back. Wink, smile...

Nice sketch work!

Hmm... something about Jacob doing cleanups while the crew is still sleeping.

Probably a healthy combination of both 🥴!

Lol too soft and wants you to toughen up eh? Ohh...okay boss. A yard of gravel weighs well over 2,000 pounds.

Seems like I recall in the beginning of Jed's journal that Sarge saw something like a hairy man one night while he was on guard duty.

Mornin'... don't forget a pic of Jacob when you get a chance. That picture on the cover of your book isn't Jed and crew... correct?

Nice truck!

I want to go camp out there, but I don't want to either.

So now that you know the place on the creek where the tom was set up have you done any prospecting or panning just downstream from that location?

So there were some girls in them thar hills. That's always a good thing unless it's your girlfriend that's getting hit on lol.

Also curious when you say names were changed. Is this the real Jacob a.k.a. Jed's brother that was with you in 2002? Kinda confused 😕🤔

Was his cabin in SW Oregon?

Welp... back in the old days someone would have been shooting at y'all by now lol 😂.

I'm confused on the timeline. I would have sworn that the marked boulders were in the fiction part of this gold tale. So if not fiction this means that there's actual Spanish gold coins stashed up there somewhere. Plus a whole bunch of gold 😂. Nice!