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Forrest Fenn (1930 – 2020), antiquities dealer who created a treasure hunt

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Forrest Fenn was an antiquities dealer and author who hid a treasure chest and inspired a 10-year public hunt for its secret location.Fenn, a U.S.

Air Force veteran who retired with the rank of Major, hid a treasure chest in the wilderness after a 1988 cancer diagnosis. He wrote a poem with clues to its location and included it in his 2010 self-published memoir, “The Thrill of the Chase.” Fenn described filling the chest with gold nuggets and coins, antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds, and ancient Chinese jade carvings.

It was a tantalizing mystery, and some were unable to ignore the urge to search for it. Treasure hunters quit their jobs and depleted their life savings to search for Fenn’s treasure.

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