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Silver Street

Main street in Natchez, Mississippi.[1]

Stampede: In March of 1877,[2] Dandy Jim Buckley met a dying man in a dive on Silver Street. The man claimed to have been one of two that had robbed the Wells Fargo office in Vermillion, Dakota Territory, of $40,000 in gold dust.[3] They fled across the Missouri River into Nebraska,[2] but the man's partner was killed by the sheriff in pursuit. The man's own horse broke a leg and he was forced to escape on foot. But before he fled, he buried the gold dust in the Mountain Meadow below the ridge between the Twin Peaks and buried it sixty paces due north of the Diamond Shape Falls. In Natchez, the man was mortally wounded by a Wells Fargo agent with a gunshot to the chest. Before he died, he sold Buckley a map to the buried gold for $200 to leave for his female companion. The man died that night, and Buckley departed for Vermillion on the trail of the gold dust the next morning.[3]

Silver Street, Natchez,[4] c1877.[1]