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Episode 200: Who Owns The Treasure, Part 2
A wandering donkey helped lead Noah Kellogg to one of North Idaho’s great mineral discoveries. But finding a fortune and owning it turned out to be two different things. In Part 2 of Who Owns The Treasure we follow the Bunker Hill claim from the hillside above Milo Creek into an Idaho courtroom.
Kellogg and Phil O’Rourke had a stake in the discovery. So did the two men who supplied Kellogg’s grubstake—and the donkey.
Their disagreement raised a question worth asking even today: What happens to a promise when keeping it becomes expensive?
We hear both sides of the dispute, uncover the court’s…
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