The Lost Paymaster Gold of 1777
We reopen a cold military ledger from the autumn of 1777. A night when a heavy iron chest packed with thousands of gold and silver coins—meant to pay George Washington’s starving, barefoot army—vanished into the dark woods of Pennsylvania, leaving behind a trail of blood, gunfire, and an unsolved fortune.
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