Grandad and Mom have been inundated by correspondence from people wanting to write the story. Here, Mom is choosing, one day at a time, to start with her Golden Retriever, a gift from a colleague at Colorado Boys Ranch. Her story tells of a legend about buried treasure in Colorado. In the year 2014, there is no longer any mystery.
The treasure was never the gold that Spaniards sought and stole from the Aztec. The treasure was water (the still frozen remnant of a glacier) -- the headwaters of the Huerfano River that used to flow into the Arkansas River near Boone. When a gas company cut through the saddle above a chama, the glacier melted, flooded the neighborhood, and the water table fell.
Chama is a local word meaning a bowl shaped area high in the mountains surrounded by peaks such as Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
There is a new bug in town, so Mom has a lot of work to do now changing our passwords!
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