Books with title Oil, the Buried Treasure

W.C. Jameson tells the secrets of lost army payrolls and smuggled gold scattered about the countryside, nearly forgotten but awaiting discovery. Jameson, a folklorist, musician, and environmentalist, has been on close to 200 expeditions for lost stashes of gold, silver, or other treasures. You'll hear: "Lost Yankee Gold", "Treasure in the Well", "The Lost Confederate Payroll", "The Wandering Confederate Treasury", and "General Morgan's Buried Treasure".

Do we have a tale for you? Only you can help us find the loot! So grab your bag and shovel and let's get going! Pretty Cool Kids Adventures starts off the voyage with a tale of pirates, sea creatures, and volcanos. Enjoy this interactive story time book with your preschooler, toddler, or simply your best friend as we travel together looking for buried treasure.

Jigsaw Jones is a puzzle fanatic second-grade detective who deals with all kinds of cases. He knows that mysteries are like jigsaw puzzles-you've got to look at all the pieces to solve the case.Missing hamsters, lost coins, haunted houses...Jigsaw Jones has seen it all before. With his top secret detective journal, eye for detail and ace partner Mila, Jigsaw is always ready to take on a new case. Jigsaw is on the hunt for clues when he finds a mysterious treasure map. It's a wintery Jigsaw Jones mystery.

Do we have a tale for you? Only you can help us find the loot! So grab your bag and shovel and let's get going! Pretty Cool Kids Adventures starts off the voyage with a tale of pirates, sea creatures, and volcanoes. Enjoy this interactive story time book with your preschooler, toddler, or simply your best friend as we travel together looking for buried treasure.

Jessica Wakefield and her closed friend Ellen Riteman have struck gold! They have discovered an old, metal box buried in Ellen's backyard. Along with love letters and photographs, it contains two hundred dollars. The girls decide to keep their discovery a secret and head for the Sweet Valley Mall to spend some of their new-found fortune. Their timeing couldn't be worse! At just about the same time, the money for the sixth grade class trip to Disneyland has disappeared from the teachers' lounge. And that's exactly when Jessica and Ellen show up at school with all their new things. If they tell the truth now, they'll get in trouble for keeping the secret, but if they don't say where they got the money, they'll be accused of stealing. How will Jessica and Ellen be able to prove their innocence.

This collection brings together 43 buried treasure legends from Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma - stories about fabulous mines abandoned by De Soto's soldiers; ingots carried partway across the Ozarks long ago, stashed in some moment of danger and never recovered; lodes of precious metal known only to local Indians; and thieves and murderers' plunder that still lies hidden underground. These tales share common themes, that are always rooted in colorful local details and partly verifiable facts. Again and again the reader is left with the haunting image of gold or silver deep in some Ozark cave, waiting to be exposed to the light of day.

This fifth volume in W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure series contains 38 tales and legends about Native American Indian hoards, Civil War caches, lost mines, and robbery stashes. Jameson includes classic treasure stories like “The Lost Treasure of Pirate William Kirk” (Virginia), “Chief Sontechee's Silver Hoard” (North Carolina), “Natchez Trace: Treasure Trail” (Mississippi) that are part myth and part history.

Anyone with an interest in the history and lore surrounding treasure will want to read these books. -KLIATT ReviewBy putting many miles on his pickup truck, scouring many old books, journals, and maps, and interviewing countless Ozark natives, W.C. Jameson compiled Buried Treasures of the Ozarks, a collection of 43 legends from Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. As they are handed down and passed around, these tales share certain elements--mysterious strangers bearing maps, social eccentrics who die rich but spurned, good folk who squander their lives on the search for treasure. Again and again, an untimely death (from pneumonia!) or cave-in, a sudden flagging of hope or interest calls searchers away just when they're on the verge of discovering untold riches. But despite their common themes, the stories are always rooted in local detail and at least partly verifiable fact. And again and again a reader is left with the haunting image of gold or silver deep in some Ozark cave, waiting to be exposed once more to the light of day. These American stories of outlaws and treasure teach readers the importance of resourcefulness, courage and responsibility.

This well-researched addition to treasure hunter, W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure series will ignite the imaginations of young readers and inspire them to go out and explore.This fifth volume in W.C. Jameson's Buried Treasure series contains 38 tales gathered from the breadth of the American South. Eight states are included: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Jameson includes classic treasure stories like “The Lost Treasure of Pirate William Kirk” (Virginia), “Chief Sontechee's Silver Hoard” (North Carolina), “Natchez Trace: Treasure Trail” (Mississippi), and legends of Indian hoards, Civil War caches, lost mines, and robbery stashes.He even includes a report of one recovered treasure in "Found: The Long-lost Treasure of the SS Central America" (South Carolina). Along with hidden pirate and indian loot, readers will also find messages of courage, responsibility and resourcefulness in these treasure hunt adventures.

Private detective, Charlie Collier, is back to his old tricks in his 4th adventure, "The Buried Treasure Caper." In this novel, the 12-year-old snoop for hire stumbles upon a rare coin with a mysterious past. Charlie, Henry, and Scarlett soon find themselves attempting to unravel a 50-year-old murder case that the local police were never able to solve. And like his other adventures, Charlie gets in way over his head and becomes the next victim of a diabolical coin collector who will do anything to protect his secret.