Forrest Fenn, an eccentric millionaire, liked to engage with those seeking his hoard but left more questions than answers
In 2010, a millionaire called Forrest Fenn self-published a memoir containing clues to a treasure hunt in the Rocky Mountains. Fenn had buried a chest full of items from his antiquities collection – including jewelry, jade carvings and plenty of gold coins deemed worth between $1m and $3m – hoping to give people the Indiana Jones type of adventure that had defined his life.
He had conceived of the hunt, he said, “for every redneck out there with a pickup truck, six kids, [who has] just lost his job, his wife, and lacks adventure.” To see people scrambling to find it gave him great satisfaction.
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