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Diamond Shape Falls

Small waterfall[1] fed my a natural spring[2] in the Mountain Meadow of Whiskey Flats, Nebraska[1] in 1877.[2]

In March of 1877,[2] Dandy Jim Buckley bought a hand-drawn map for $200 from a dying man in Natchez who claimed to have been one of two men to have robbed the Wells Fargo office in Vermillion, Dakota Territory, of $40,000 in gold dust. The map charted the location of where the man had buried the gold dust, near Vermillion, while making his getaway. The Diamond Shape Falls was the last landmark on the map, only sixty paces south of the buried gold dust. But the town of Whiskey Flats had been built since the man had drawn the map.[1] By April,[2] the time Bret and Buckley came upon the falls, the town's jail had been built on directly over the site of the buried gold dust.[1]

See: Stampede