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They called it “the solve.” The solution to a puzzle created by a Santa Fe art dealer named Forrest Fenn, who had hidden a chest full of treasure somewhere in the Southwest and published a book containing a seemingly nonsensical poem that, when deciphered, provided clues to the treasure’s whereabouts. Everyone searching for the chest, reputed to be worth a good $1 million, had a “solve.” And everyone of those thousands of treasure hunters no one.
May 28, 2021
THE WASHINGTON POST – One of the more memorable TV shows of my childhood was
The Millionaire. In each episode, a fictional character received a million bucks, tax free, out of the blue. The drama, which ran from 1955 to 1960, centred on what the lucky stiff did with that windfall and how it changed his or her life. The donor, John Beresford Tipton – the best name for a plutocrat since Scrooge McDuck – withheld his identity from the recipient; the gift was supposed to be an anonymous rain of wealth, not an ego trip for the philanthropist.
Forrest Fenn, the real-life donor at the heart of
Now out in bookstores, Barbarisi’s “Chasing the Thrill, Obsession, Death and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt” is drawing widespread media attention, as did the search.
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