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Jesse James Gold
at Santa Clara Indian Reservation Joe Suazo, a Santa
Clara Indian, was arrested in 1962 in Albuquerque, New Mexico for refusing
to divulge the location of $645,000 in gold bullion he had previously
located on a mountain in the Santa Clara Reservation with Jesse L. James
of Manitou, Colorado, who claimed his grandfather, the notorious Missouri
bandit Jesse James, had given him the gold and told him how to find
it. The loot was not from robberies, but was 1,260 pounds of
90-pound gold ingots collected to finance a hoped-for second rebellion in
the South. When the gold was first found by the pair, the snow was
too deep to carry it away, so they decided to wait, but Suazo went back
and moved the gold to another location without telling James, and said he
would not reveal its location until the "spirits" told him to so
James filed a lawsuit against him.
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