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The park was deserted when Maddock and Bones returned beneath the cover of darkness. Further research had uncovered an account of treasure being hidden in a small recess on a cliff face in Conkle’s Hollow and marked the spot by carving an arrow in the stone. According to the story, the Native Americans who hid the treasure had reached the recess by climbing a tree, but when they returned months later, a storm had knocked the tree down, and attempts to reach the spot had failed.
They decided if there ever was a treasure there, it was long gone. Maddock concluded that without a tree, they’d use a rope and lower someone down the cliff to retrieve it. Bones added that, “Only white dudes would need an arrow to remind them where they’d hid their treasure.”
With that, the pair of experienced
