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Treasure

Ali Baba

uses magic to find thieves’ storehouse of booty. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”]

Comstock Lode

richest silver vein in world. [Amer. Hist.: Flexner, 177]

Dantés, Edmond

digs up the treasure revealed to him by a dying fellow prisoner. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo]

El Dorado

legendary land of gold in South America. [Span. Myth.: NCE, 846]

Fort Knox

U.S. depository of gold bullion. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 984]

forty-niners

participants in California gold rush of 1849. [Am. Hist.: LLEI, I: 270]

Golconda

fabled Indian city, meaning “source of great wealth.” [Indian Hist.: NCE, 1101]

gold bug

leads to finding of Captain Kidd’s buried treasure. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Gold Bug”]

Golden Fleece

fleece of pure gold from a winged ram, stolen from Colchis by Jason and the Argonauts. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 406]

Kidd, Captain

(c. 1645–1701) pirate captures prizes and buries treasure. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 444]

King Solomon’s mines

in Africa; search for legendary lost treasure of King Solomon. [Br. Lit.: King Solomon’s Mines]

Legrand, William

uncovers chest of gold by deciphering parchment. [Am. Lit.: Poe “The Gold Bug”]

Mother Lode

name applied to gold-mining region of California. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 569]

Nibelung, the

more gold and jewels than wagons could carry. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]

Nostromo

inadvertently gains hoard of silver ingots. [Br. Lit.: Nostromo]

Ophir

Red Sea area noted for gold. [O.T.: I Kings 9:28; 10:11; 22:48]

Sutter’s Mill

site of first strike precipitating Gold Rush. [Am. Hist. Flexner, 175]

Treasure Island

search for buried treasure ignited by discovery of ancient map. [Br. Lit.: Treasure Island]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

in Mexico, written by the reclusive, pseudonymous B. Traven. [Am. and Mex. Lit.: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]