'Finding' in The Ohio Valley

"If you were like most kids growing up, you may have spent a summer afternoon hunting for lost treasure. You pretended to be Blackbeard and looked on some creek bank for buried plunder or hunted for bags of yellow gold in the Lost Dutchmen's gold mine.

For most of us this childhood fantasy of lost treasure faded as we grew older; after all, it was just a child's game. We have long forgotten that excitement we felt searching for treasure that we somehow knew was not to be found.

But there are people who make their living hunting for the lost treasures of the world. Long sunken treasure ships are sometimes found in coastal waters of the Atlantic. Modern, lone gold miners still occasionally find that small motherlode of precious metal hidden in the earth. But this is a life persued by only a few, and even fewer ever achieve any real success."

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