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January 18, 2019 by austincontrestano

 

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Pierce Ranch

In the summer of 1854, a destitute stowaway on a Texas-bound schooner was discovered and forced to work for his passage. After handling freight to pay for his travel, nineteen-year-old Abel Head Pierce, a native of Little Compton, Rhode Island, landed at the Texas port of Indianola five months after leaving home. The meeting between Pierce and the rich soil of the coastal plains of Texas might have been destiny. The young man would go on to amass a fortune in land and cattle, not far from where he first disembarked.

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A brief period of military camels in Texas became lost to even most history books.

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Texas Lost Treasure: Part 1

As a standard for mythical tall tales and legends, it comes as no surprise that Texas holds the national corner on stories of lost treasure.

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