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Fool's Gold: Prospectors Have Looked for the Lost Dutchman's Gold for a Century, But Jesse Capen Figured He Could Find It. He Probably Died Trying.
Phoenix New Times, 2010. Phoenix New Times.
Long-form journalism on Jesse Capen's December 2009 disappearance, with Tom Kollenborn's statement that he has found no evidence the mine existed ("Actual facts about the lost mine just don't exist") and an 1892 newspaper's dismissal of the deathbed story.
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For the Capen case and the local historian's verdict.
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Phoenix New Times (2010). Fool's Gold: Prospectors Have Looked for the Lost Dutchman's Gold for a Century, But Jesse Capen Figured He Could Find It. He Probably Died Trying.. Phoenix New Times. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/?p=40514803
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