For over one hundred and eighty-five years, the legends of a rich source of silver brought prospectors and fortune-seekers from Wisconsin, and for more hundred and eighty-five, the location of this vein of native silver has been a mystery. The mystery is discovered after 1820, when an Indian told settlers of a vein silver so pure and wide that the pieces of the size of the hand of a man could be cut from the same. Other Indians, outraged by the narration of history, discount as a myth and settlers ignored the story properly – for a while, anyway.
When the land in the area of Lake Superior were purchased in 1842 and excavation and blasting of metals began with lust, people became interested again this legend. By this time the Indians, who considered that these actions were an affront to the Great Spirit, not spoken. The existence of a great vein was confirmed by Benjamin Armstrong, the son-in-law of head of Buffalo, who said that an elderly of the tribe would be sent to silver and back to her after a few days, but the old man had said that the Spirit was angry and caused him to forget Where was the place, but could still describe it a little.
In other Indian late1880 was credited with the knowledge of the location of the silver. Old Ice Feathers, a hermit who lived on an island on Lake Namekagon and later became known as Chief Namekagon is known to have bet money caches three men in Ashland. Sam Campbell, a timber cruiser who lived a few miles from Lake Namekagon had heard that the Boss had begun with these three men to show location, but returned when a black bear crossed their path, a harbinger of doom as the Chief Namekagon. The head was found dead, murdered, possibly not long after the station near Marengo. If the location of the silver had become known to another before his death has not been revealed. Many others have sought and some claimed to have known the least bit about it though. Unfortunately, the stories always seem to silver mine in different places.
A farmer told Johnson on behalf of sheltering and feeding the head of a night in bad weather. The Chief had no money with him at the time, but he had money with him when he arrived to Ashland the next day. The placement of the mine has been considered by some to resultantly break between the former property of Johnson and Ashland. Does listening Johnson Chief and hide it on the silver he had in his possession, however, or do we really learn in the way of ownership of Ashland Johnson?
Another story is a name registrar Hoeppner who claimed to have found the mine and showed the test, a piece of silver the size "of" the hand of a man, a friend. Hoeppner had claimed to have successfully completed another man to silver. He and his friend could not locate the place again, however. This story puts the lost copper silver clasp Falls State Park, and north of Bad River Gap.
Many thoughts have been aired over the last century and a half locations possible and there is no lack of rumors knowledge and legends of the silver. In a land so rich in minerals, there is also the possibility of a lost mine over there. The only details that maintained story to story is that the mine opening is large enough for a person to pass through, then it becomes a cave.
While people regularly turn to deposits of silver and native properties of the location of the vein, for some reason the place seems still a mystery. Perhaps Indians were mistaken in thinking that it was the wrath of the spirits that makes those who are forgetting how to get back.
If you decide to make a trip to Wisconsin to search for lost money this location, be ready to keep some infallible notes the location, if found. Maybe you want to fill the bag with this fine silver and in case you too, you're confused about how to return again.
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