Howk

50 Many of these professionals, including surveyors and those expert in building tunnels, were recruited from Germany, Austria, France and Italy, Howk a.k.a.

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Bob would later learn that Woodson’s information largely came from a collection of letters and other personal effects from Orvus Lee Howk, a.k.a.

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The latter, whose legal name was Orvus Lee Howk, also went by the name Jesse Lee James and claimed to have been a grandson of Jesse Woodson James.

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Howk notes that some of the caches are relatively small.

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The book does not elaborate on the fact that Orvus Lee Howk/Jesse Lee James who is now deceased also paraded his said grandfather—who was in a severely enfeebled state, suffering from a broken hip—around at vaudeville-type road shows in the late 1940s.

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Frank Dalton—via Orvus Howk and Del Schrader—had asserted.

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After his wounds had healed at the end of the Civil War, Kentucky-born Jesse Woodson threw himself headlong into KGC operations, according to Schrader and Howk.

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Frank Dalton waybill to an “Arizona Desert Treasure,” as illustrated—with its adobe buildings—by Howk signed JJ III.

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In some cases, it seems that Dalton-James may have taken Howk to the surrounding environs of the various depository sites themselves.

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For a number of years, Orvus Lee Howk had lived in the footsteps and shadows of an enigmatic man who undoubtedly knew where innumerable secret caches were buried; how frustrating must it have been for him not to have been able to find the precise spots!

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