You mentioned most of what you do as a professional treasure hunter is illegal. Can you explain? Because so much land is private or government owned property, I am often involved in trespassing. Furthermore, national and state salvage and recovery laws, which cover removing most, if not all, lost and buried treasures, are often restrictive. In most cases they don’t allow the finder to keep anything. These laws did not exist several years ago. When politicians and other lawmakers saw how much wealth was being recovered from lost and buried caches, they decided they should get some of it and began developing those laws. If one finds and removes an historic treasure cache from private or government owned property without permission, it is technically stealing. For example, many lost and buried caches in this country are now located within the borders of national and state lands such as parks, wildlife areas, and historical sites. In [...] Read more »

Since the release of the book, Treasure Hunter: Caches, Curses, and Deadly Confrontations, a number of writers representing newspapers, magazines, television, and other media outlets have requested interviews. Normally reclusive and not inclined to give interviews, noted treasure hunter and author W.C. Jameson has agree to use this space to respond to the interview questions one at a time. Question #1: Your latest book is Treasure Hunter: Caches, Curses, and Deadly Confrontations, a memoir of some of your most memorable expeditions. Why did you write this book? At first I did not want to write Treasure Hunter. The principal reason is related to the fact that one of the best advantages a professional treasure hunter can have is that of anonymity. The truth is, most of what I do as a professional treasure hunter is illegal, therefore the less that is known about me and what I am involved with, the better. My wife has [...] Read more »

Recent information that arrived in the mail shows that my book, Buried Treasures of the American Southwest, remains the best-selling volume of the entire series of lost mines and buried treasure books.     Published over two decades ago, this book is still in print and still selling well, and is the most popular of the W.C. Jameson’s Buried Treasures of America Series. For this, I wish to thank my readers. This has been a writing and publishing adventure filled with joy and satisfaction, and you have been responsible for most of that. Thank you very much.     Other books of the series with impressive numbers include Buried Treasures of the Ozarks and Lost Treasures in American History. A couple of reasons have been advanced for this. With regard to the Ozarks book, professional and amateur treasure hunters alike hare discovering the possibilities of some great treasure finds in the Ozark states of Missouri, Oklahoma, and [...] Read more »