AT Shorts: Father Kino's Silver

In 1961, Jon Miles was working at a mobile home park near Miracle Mile with an elderly man named Dixie—and Dixie claimed to know the location where Spanish Father Eusebio Kino buried a cache of silver. Jon and Dixie convinced the mobile home park owners to grubstake them and, with little more than dried food, a dowsing rod, and a few boxes of dynamite, the two men headed off into the hills west of the Mission Tumacacori.

Aengus Anderson