Golden Rhoades - The Search for the Lost Utah Gold Treasure
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- "Golden Rhoades" - the Historical Hunt for the Legendary Lost Rhoades Mines. This film superbly documents the epic search and potential discovery of one of the largest hidden treasures in America. A secret cache believed by many to contain a wealth of gold and natural resources; it is commonly believed that the mines may contain an abundance of riches so vast that it could cover the national debt! The Rhoades Mines' protected location is believed (speculated) to have been provided to the Mormon church by the Ute Indians in order for the church to survive its difficult pioneering into Utah. The film is the only feature length documentary that delves into the myth, fact, and fiction surrounding an amazing tale of adventure, treasure maps, mysterious deaths, and intriguing characters. It provides details and clues to the mines that have eluded thousands of prospectors for over one hundred and fifty years. The film was shot (much in confidential locations) throughout the vast Ute Indian Territory and surrounding Utah Rocky Mountains.
I was happy to be there for part of the filming! RIP Paul, Steve, and those who have gone before us!
Great Film! Kerry what part were you in it? I really enjoyed the way this video was done!
@@TheTuttleCrew I was present during the interviews at the campout, including the nighttime scenes around the campfire.
@@kerryjacobson5465 Yes he would have been a good guy to ride with!
Excellent documentary and very important history. I am grateful you went to such great lengths to capture so many people's stories. To me, that is the real gold.
Cannot believe I just came across this today. AWESOME work, real people, real history, and fascinated every second of it.
Thank you for the hard work putting this together.
Masterfully Done. Veins of pure gold running right through the whole thing.
Paul seemed like a good man. Rest in peace
Just an amazing history lesson and treasure hunt combined.
Paul was one of those good souls. He obviously could have mined the silver and although not get rich, still could have made some decent profit. But to a lot of people. Its not whats in the land but whos been on it. Your entire history is based on that land. And who knows if there is or isn't gold there. But knowing what happens to any land that is actively mined in the modern methods or those of last century. Their would be no trace of whats been revered for generations. Just look at what what we've done from coast to coast just to make a few people wealthy. The forests of the Appalachian mountains are gone. The bison and elk that inhabited the entirety of the north are gone. The lakes and rivers are toxic where once you could drink from them. The mines in the west left mercury and arsenic in the streams and rivers. All for precious metals. Once they were extracted the land was left useless. Millions of acres devastated for a few people to get rich. It just doesn't make any sense. We called the indigenous Americans savages, in reality id say we were far more savage than anyone who set foot here. So Paul and his people are right. Don't let anyone know and preserve what you have. Rest in peace. You did your job.
I sure enjoyed watching, it was very interesting history..Thank you.
THAT was awesome , thank you
Very Very Interesting!!!!!! Thank u for posting this!!!!!!
This is one of the best real treasure movies I've ever seen. I loved the History, landscapes, lakes and all the characters. It's just so sad that so many along the way passed on 🙏🕊💫 I'm going to watch more on this channel I just subbed. I really believe in my heart the darn Mormons need and should give back whatever they've taken from the UTE Americans . It doesn't belong to them they're not even from America they came over by boat from all over fleeing what was done to them and now doing to the Ute. God Bless All🙏❤🕊💫
The one Ute chief let a Mormon dude take gold from the one mine. Like the native gave it to the mormon dude. And maybe there’s gold on the one statue but ah good luck finding any coins minted from the gold taken.
And I’m sure there was some bad things the mormons did. But read about Brigham being offered a boy to buy. He said no and the Native American killed the boy and said why did you kill the boy by not buying him? Then the native offered a girl and Brigham bought the girl rather then see her killed cause he didn’t think they’d kill the boy. The girl he raised and later married chief kanosh a band of Utes that lived by kanosh utah. That tribe never went to war probably cause the chiefs wife was raised by Brigham and was a slave of the UTES.
The Utes would go on raids and take slaves from the goshutes and other tribes and sell to the Spanish. There was a big controversy of evil mormons trying to stop the natives selling natives to the Spanish in New Mexico or Mexico. You could buy a kid and raise em till they’re 18 I think. I believe when I looked native Americans became citizens years after African Americans became citizens so I don’t think you legally could adopt a Native American cause they’re not a citizen. Idk maybe.
It’s just like the Aztecs. Schools teach how the Spanish murdered them. That’s true but the aztecs also sacrificed tens of thousands of slaves to their gods which is why native Americans got sick of it and helped the Spanish fight the aztecs. Like it seems in a lot of history sometimes there’s an innocent party but a lot of times it’s mixed. Like the Utes were also slaves of the Spanish to dig mines but those same Utes then would sell their own kids or capture other natives to then sell to the Spanish. It’s mind boggling. If slavery was bad and the Utes didn’t like being slaves why then did the Utes continue and promote slavery? If ya know tell me cause I never read why?
The part talking about the rockslide where two rabbits came out from under some rocks, is exactly how discoveries are made. By being curious and intrigued he investigated “where did these rabbits come from?” Finds mine. Also the rockslide was most likely man made by Indians to cover its entrance. Concealing it
Great video. Ty
I recently posted a comment about your lost Rhodes mine video and just wanted to add that I have found gold in the Unitas, but just not in the area described in the book Faded Footprints.
I've found it in Whiterocks canyon and about half way between the Bear River Ranger station and Mirror Lake.
A word of caution, Whiterocks canyon is on the Ute Indian reservation. So any gold you find there, belongs to them. Furthermore you have to have permission from them to prospect there.
Iv'e looked for the mine also. But the beauty of nature are much more richer.***
Awe...
I was hoping that the Utah State archeologist Dr. Jones' first name happened to be; "Indiana." 😅
That silver vein runs 5000 oz to the ton my uncle found it years ago and I assayed it for him. He died a few years back and would never tell me the location, but I still have a piece of it somewhere. But I have found gold in those mountains back in my younger years maybe I'll go back when I retire next year but if I do it will be to go fishing.
Do you still monitor this channel? I’d like to talk to you about it if you have time.
Fun y deeing Dan Lowe in this film so much younger!!! 😊 Still sound the same!!!!
This is kinds of a long story.... I'm a Texas born Nevada,Utah and Idaho raised , my poppa was a farmer and we raised crops in our own farm and help out lots of other farmers just like they always helped us and everyone,... Yrs went by and I left the farm and started building my own future .... While I was still in Utah,I received a phone call that my maternal Grandma was bedridden and wanted to see me, I hadn't seen her in years , they told me to get to Texas asap cause grandma didn't look so good , thank God I got on a plane in SLC and flew to San Antonio then was picked up and driven to go see my grandma 1 last time .... After all the funeral/burial thing , I bought a truck to drive back to Utah , 4x4's are extremely affordable in Texas cause it's always dry so 4x4 is sort of useless in s.texas so they're really affordable... On my way back to Utah days later , I drove all the way from Laredo (my now hometown) to El Paso and there was "the last WHATABURGER in Texas" so I hobbled down lots of crap and hrs later while I was driving thru the New Mexico desert I had to do an emergency stop in the great outdoors to , and I'm being honest, to poop 💩 , after doing my business I started walking around where I had pulled over , just enjoying the view, mountains and the whole desert from a top of a hill I had sorta climed, while I was walking down the mountain next to the highway I saw a strange looking squared rock sticking out of the ground , so I picked it up , it was all sort of like a black stain/color/stuff all around it but you could tell it was a squared manmade piece,so I took it home , weeks later I remembered that thing and started cleaning it up with a wire brush since all that black ash fell of and turned out to be like a yellow bar which I gave to my father , this happend back in the 80s , bout 9 yrs ago I went thru a stroke a various heart attacks , got disabled and yrs later I finally got on my feet again, so I started cleaning out my dad's old tool shed and refound the piece I had given my father back 80s , and I swear on my father's tomb , I swear on my beloved mother's ashes and swear to God I've never had it checked out , I tried to years after I refound it ,by the people who I asked help just saw the pic and started claiming it was a man made bar of something and that I had melted that thing .... And to this day I still don't know what it can be , and honestly , it came to the point where I just told my sister that was gonna donate this piece to the state of New Mexico so they can check it out plus put it in some display just in case it turned out to be something important .... That's why I decided to post the piece I found with me holding it .... One thing I'm willing to do, health wise I'm not doing that good but after all this time trying to talk to someone about it , I decided that if any hunter or hunters would like to talk about taking a trip to this one place where this thing was found , maybe we can set something up, I'm no hunter , just found this piece (I'm holding it on my pic) but it's practically in the middle of nowhere New Mexico but that famous mountain where Doc Ness said to be lots of gold bars , well that one place I've been told it's just around the corner ...😊
Truth or Consequences…San Andres?
@@benjaminjantzen1398 not really sure how it's called , I was like 20 yrs old back then , which was like 30 plus yrs ago , but looking thru Google maps I saw only few places t swear that sort of looks like the place where I found this thing which is now in San Antonio, Texas ...
@@benjaminjantzen1398y'all wanna see a pic of the thing I found, I still posses it , let me know and or drop me an email so I can send y'all pics
Love the clip from the movie Mother Load.
People don’t realize how dangerous the Indians were back then. Cause every story ends with the Spanish showing up to a mine, scouted a great spot in geology. Then the Indians will watch them for sometime until one morning at breakfast massacred. The Indians tend to also shove the bodies and their gold in a cave nearby also. It becomes an Indian Chief cache in this cave. Where victims are placed for entering area. Gold stacked up against wall.
The Indians resented being used as slaves and having their women abused, so just like at any time in history, when the abuse became too much they revolted.
You would be dangerous if someone tried to take your home 🙃 ...your land.
You interview Boren in prison and never mention why he’s there😂
He beat his wife to death...
Did he really?
Unalived his for better or for worse vowed wife... Dude lies about everything....
Why would they dynamite a wood door inside a mine?
So stupid it makes me feel like it’s total bs. Who would even consider that whole thinking there’s piles of gold bars on the other side. Ludicrous if u ask me.
Love my grandpa chunky Murray
Someone needs to travel to Spain and see what stories and rumors the old timers have regarding this part of the shared history.
All the old timers are dead, that was more than 200 years ago....but there are records in the Archives in Spain and Mexico that contain many clues.
That’s been done many- many times! A lot of the areas with RICH Gold Mines are NOT SPANISH!
The area around these mines are setup like Spanish but they are NOT Spanish! They are mines that were worked by the Black Robes! Jesuit’s!
The Spanish were great Miner’s, however, the Jesuit’s were very “HIGHLY EDUCATED!” They were amazing Artists and Architect’s! Stone
“MASONS!” They had a CODE SYSTEM! I have come to know of a Man, who on the surface, he seems full of shit, however, he is a BRILLIANT INDIVIDUAL! I have SEEN, EXTRACTED & OWN THINGS THAT HE HAS LED ME TOO! He knows his Shit! I thought he was a Crack-Pot when I first met him. Boy, was I wrong!
He has dedicated a lot of YEARS OF HIS LIFE AND HARD BONE & BACK BREAKING WORK!
He is TRULY AMAZING, not greedy at all! He’s actually in this to preserve the HISTORY but wants to figure out the story and he HAS! Still TONS & TONS OF TREASURE CASHES W/ COUNTLESS ARTIFACTS, SYMBOLS, CARVINGS ALL CODED WITH AN ENCRYPTION BEYOND MODERN BELIEFS! I HAVE IN MY POSSESSION THE PROOF OF IT!!! I was present when it was extracted outta the “AREA”, LOL, that it came from! If we stuck too the Spanish Rules, we would have went around in a spiral CIRCLE to a pinpointed area that was 3.3 EXACT VERA from the closest Cashe! There was a Rock that was a set of lips that were smiling at us and basically called us FOOLS!
So far, 9 Cashe areas have been located and mapped! Mapped again after hundreds of years of being mapped before by the Black Robes! It’s more AMAZING TO SEE THAN HEAR ABOUT IT! Im a fastly aging OLD MAN and I don’t want these things to be lost forever! However, I would never divulge these secrets to just anyone! I am ALREADY RICH as far as wealth is concerned, therefore, I would NEVER sell these secrets! If the
“RIGHT PERSON”, proved themselves worthy and willing to put in the HARDWORK, I might share some of these locations and methods of detection! If she had
Two Big Ole (,)-(,), it may prove to be pretty lucrative for her! Lmao. Ok, ok, Im joking about the B(,)-(,)Bs, but a Lady is just as capable as a Man to earn these secrets.
I would just prefer
Watching (,)-(,)’s traipsing around the mountains rather than a stinking Dude! Lol.
I said that I was
an “Old Man!” I just forgot the “Dirty Old Man” part. Lol.
@@wannahumpalot8924 I'd love to talk more with you, my gf and I, we love treasure hunting and love history. We're pretty poor but rich in spirit. Please contact me here then I'll give you my email. Thanks
The lost Rhodes mines are on Blind Frog Rance.
Everybody uses landmarks to get places the Spanish even knew cryptology and coded the maps. They would climb up to a high place and then sketch a land survey of area. Drawing a river or creek system from above. They also used stones wedged in trees along the way as the path to the mine. Other times they may find a gold vein on a hill with dense tree canopies so they will build a concrete structure that pokes out of canopy for others back in Mexico to see the landmark and find it. It is impossible to use words to send someone to a specific location without using landmarks. The only other way is numbers (coordinates)
Even more than this, it was illegal to mine a claim without the King or Church being aware of the location, (the only way for the King to ensure he got his %) but the King was far away so a lot of illegal mining was done.
The church was given a chance to take a copper map but the church said no we don’t have documentation saying we own it. If the church was trying to keep places secret they would have took the map. A guy wrote a book about it.
Not if it was worthless. They already had it. That means they have the loot or know it's gone. Also I haven't seen proof of this transaction.
call me crazy, but i believe in superstition/curses when it comes to ancient artifacts. i believe the gold mine is there, earth quakes, time, fire, rain have covered the location. i would love to explore that area and find the gold. but i like living another day. excellent historical video in all ways, the testimonials from witnesses, again the history. just a great historic video.
What year was this film produced?
2003 😂if you're patient enough to wait till the end.
To me it looked like an oxide copper smelter not gold.
There was probably some rich oxide copper ore near the smelter on the surface that they quickly exhausted.
Gold is just a rare element; it's what you do with it that counts.
Cool fact. When I was a kid UTE headquarters use to be a casino but then the government of Utah said no gambling even on Indian land no gambling anywhere in the state of Utah
Caleb Rhoades recorded claims at the Wasatch county courthouse. I personally went there and made photo copies.
The locations of these mines is public record. Look along Co-op creek. I took 50 pounds of highgrade out of there in 1998. It took me two weeks to find it and remove it. I took all I could carry. There is plenty more. Come on up.
The Utes still guard the best mine.
If you're dumb enough to actually want gold that's where it is. I still have one of the bars 3 1/2 oz. I'm looking at it right now. I'd post a picture if UA-cam would let me.
No spirit would stop me from looking if I thot I could find the mine....
But it could stop you from finding it
😂😂😂 trust me
They could do whatever they wanted
@@Milkywayboy except stop your mom last night
yep you can trust the government just ask a native american
I lived in Vernal, Ut for many years. These are NOT pictures of Dry Fork canyon.
I have oare from old Spanish silver mines un Uintahs
I find it ironic that the Spaniards were supposedly able to find abundant gold in Uinta area yet modern day people cannot.
I live on the Wyoming side of the Uintas and the history I know about it all is very warped from the very biased view in this documentary.
From what I know: from the rumors of gold - Mormons basically took over the Uintas and would pretty much massacre anyone coming into the Uintas to protect the suspected gold.
I have close friends with large amounts of property in the Uintas, with long hikes you can find little ghost towns hidden in the trees, but have never seen actual mines - just lots of caves (caves aren't necessarily 'ancient mines').
It could be found but there are three things preventing that. 1. Much of it is on Indian lands and they don't want it found. 2. Federal regulations are so prohibitive that all the good mining areas are off limits. You cannot mine or file a claim near a drainage or water. This excludes about 80% because anyone that understands faults and their development knows that gold comes to the surface with water. 3. The area above the rim of the Uintas is the High Uintas wilderness area. No mining allowed. That is the other 20% of minable locations. Almost all the old Spanish mines were in drainages, near water, on Indian land or in the high Uintas. No secrets here for us prospectors. The Feds have it all figured out. They don't want anyone taking the gold because they have mortgaged the land through borrowing to other countries.
@@phaedrus12134 The Mormons didn't massacre anyone, that would be the Spanish and Utes killing each other. The Mormons didn't have any interest in mining, in fact Brigham told the pioneers to cover up every mine they found to "prevent miners from coming in and bringing their brothels and whisky."
@@treasureexplorationandrese3712 You nailed it spot on👍
@@treasureexplorationandrese3712Cant speak on any murders, but under guidance of dreams, they dug mines and took gold from the basin, all under the guise of religion.
Hard to mine gold in a Wilderness Area.
If that gold can wipe out the national debt it must be in the trillions. Highly skeptical. Ra
If there's that much gold and other precious stuff in "them that hills" then it should be used to pay the national debt, do good with it.
Why would the Utes help the Mormons?
Because they were liars and manipulators...
The accents are so thick in this video its next to impossible to follow what some of these guys are even saying. Subtitles would be helpful.
Are you an Alien?
i found a flur-da-le and 7 animal markings i wrote down the coordinance
I think you mean fleur-de-Lis and coordinates, lol.
@@twotwentyswift yes thanks
I have found so much more but no one is interested so I will keep it to myself
@@montneymon-ta-knee6810 I sure would. You no doubt put a lot of effort in to learn what you know. Information has value so there's no reason to simply give it away.
@@montneymon-ta-knee6810 I'm interested very much so.
I just missed 40gold bars because I did not want to dog through bones l know where several of the mines are. JD
How do you know there were 40 bars if you stopped digging?
I wonder if touching and rubbing ancient petroglyphs actually degrades them?
-Nah, a Ute showed me it’s okay as long as you don’t tell anybody.
Seriously. That dude was desecrating the image/message just for his ego.
I want gold. Why not?
The gold was from California. Rhoades` wife and servant discovered it while washing clothes in a creek. Two years before the "discovery" at Sutters` Mill! Also by Mormons.
Geologist are clueless. There is gold everywhere.
permit to mine on our land. ute land i understand but us land belong to the people
as if they are te first ones to explore those caves
It’s mostly Indian land
Fairy tale.same as every town butch Cassidy may or may not have passed through once is some how his home town✌🇺🇸
But it belongs to the Indians.
If god made all things to be in harmony and a human finding gold is out of harmony why then did god create gold? It’s like Adam and Eve story. God said multiply and don’t eat this fruit to have an adult level of consciousness. You can’t have sex with the mind of a toddler or child. There’s the outlier nine year old that has a baby but most children don’t have kids. God gave two commandments that were contradictory to each other. They didn’t eat the fruit then they didn’t have kids, they ate and were kicked out but then had kids. Makes ya think why weren’t they kicked out for not having kids cause that broke one rule too? Maybe the guy was right god wants things to be in harmony but god definitely encourages disharmony by the way he setup this society. If you lived in harmony or bliss not knowing pain ya wouldn’t know joy.
Like natives are against gold I get because they were slaves, but then a natives also took slaves from other tribes and sold natives to the Spanish or other tribes etc. it’s like if slavery and death made natives not like gold it makes ya wonder why did natives then continue to practice slavery if they were once slaves and they didn’t like slavery? I’ve never figured that out. Like you’d think the culture would have changed or been different
What you are talking about is hypocrisy, man’s hearts and mines which are untruthful and evil. The Satan devil has been a short time on earth and has deceived everyone. God, our father told us not to eat of that one tree because he would bless us by following his orders. Instead, we decided that we knew better because we were deceived by the snake, therefore Adam and Eve of the tree of knowledge that was forbidden and we are slaves to our sin ever cents.
dynamite [earthquake]!!!!!!
Hahaha Gold is not disharmony Gold is harmony don't be dumb
These tall tails are like all the rest...... A big lock, too much dynamite. Then some guy talking stories about ghosts hahaha. He prolly doesn't know the way to a mailbox. I call bs.
People believe their own lies hahaha
So the documentary end with the Host and Cowboy-Indian Paul digging and crawling they Broke-Back-Mountain!!! 😆😬🤮 Hahahahaha
..... When they were walking into that dinner near the end, I thought Paul was gonna regret
Bs. . Gone to by my now
Did you have a stroke while typing?
I give you a thumbs down because it is in a national forest and it is against the law to take anything out
You are mistaken. National forest is not National Park land. Mining and timber harvesting in our national forests is permitted throughout the entire United States. Check the accuracy of your information before you make an ass out of yourself .
Wrong there @LeeFree
I found the gold .i melted it down into a golden calf.
Where did you find it?
Talk about a anti religious BS video...
I'd say you half right. Real church history is much worse than this BS.