The Buried Treasure (Illustrated): Old Jordan's "Haunt"

The Buried Treasure is the first of three volumes in the Boy Trapper Series. The Evans family lives not far from the Mississippi River. Once fairly affluent, we find them in poverty as the story opens. Father Evans has heard that during the Civil War, a rich neighbor, General Gordon, buried a barrel with $80,000 in a potato patch near the Evans' cottage. Mister Evans and a nephew of General Gordon agree to find the barrel and divide the treasure, and both families start searching. But is th...