Lost Treasure Anthology - New England Treasure Stories Volume-I (digital downloadable book) This digital book contains 25 different stories -- over 100+ pages -- all dedicated to New England Treasures! Anthology: This Anthology is a collection of published stories, by multiple authors, in a book format. It was compiled from the Archives of one or more of our six publications: Lost Treasure – Treasure Cache – Treasure Facts – Treasure World – True Treasure – Rockhound.

Treasure Tales and Treasure Stories About Maine from the Archives of Lost Treasure Magazine

Hit the Stage

Crawford, in Washington County, once the center of extensive lumbering operations, was also the scene of many stagecoach robberies. Favorite yarns of early stagecoach travel tell how, when deep snow impeded the progress of the coach, packs of wolves would follow the wheel tracks. They were warded off only by the alertness of the drivers and the quick cocking and firing of hand loaded and primed guns.

Other exciting tales abound in this region. One concerns three brothers, living near Bangor, who became highwaymen and terrorized this district, stopping coaches several times a week and extracting all valuables and luggage from the passengers. Several months later in Boston a passenger who had been robbed while traveling here recognized a man lounging in a tavern as one of the three bandits. Accused, the man shouted his innocence, but a gold nugget, hanging from his watch chain, was found to bear the initials of the coach passenger. It could pay to do local research on this gang...