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TREASURE IN THE BIG THICKET
The Big Thicket is a well named forest area in East Texas. In places it is so thick with undergrowth as to form an almost impenetrable jungle. Neither swamp nor marshland, the soil is dry and rich. In early days even the Indians avoided straying far from the few beaten trails through it.
Durin the Civil War, the Big Thicket became a refuge of service dodging Texans and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called.
On the western edge of the area in a small crossroads community known as Kenniflick, in Liberty County. Local people believe that a copper chest containing $1.5 million worth of jewels and money is buried there in the quicksand. It has been there for 250 years or more, they say, since the pack train transporting it from Florida to Mexico was attacked by Indians. It is pointed out that the old Atoscita Road connecting Spain's two New World empires passed just south of Kenniflick.
The treasure was actually recovered in the 1930s but was lost in the quicksand again when the hoist rope broke. Many other searches have been made for this chest, some claiming that it has been located several times with a probe at a depth of 25 ft. No one has figured out a way to retrieve it. With modern engineering methods of draining, and suctions pumps, the quicksand could possibly be removed. If the chest contains $1.5 million, as believed, the expense would be worth it.
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