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Cibola

Cíbola

The Cíbola, also known as The Lost City of Gold, was hidden in Mount Rushmore, and was found by Benjamin Franklin Gates in 2007.

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In 1527, a Spanish shipwrecked on the Florida coast, only four crew members survived. Esteban was one of them. After he saved a local tribe's dying chief, he was shown the city of gold as a reward. Esteban later tried finding it but couldn't. The legend of the golden city grew, and several expeditions were made to find it. grew

General George Armstrong Custer tragic last stand at Little Bighorn marked as the final try to find Cíbola.

Eventually a wood carving detailing the city's location was found and Queen Victoria had it split in half with each piece hidden in the Resolute Desks. When the Civil War broke out, she sent clues and letters to Confederate General Albert Pike, hoping he would find the city and use the gold to fund the Confederacy. She believed a weakened United States would strengthen the British Empire and an alliance with the Southern States would give her more access to cotton.

When the war ended in 1865 John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen went to Thomas Gates to decode the clues. When Gates was close to finishing, he realized who Michael O'Laughlen was and what the clue meant, so he tried to burn it. O'Laughlen shot and killed Gates in retaliation before recovering the half-solved clue from the fire.

In 2007, Pike's descendant Mitch Wilkinson set motion a plan to find Cíbola. Mitch framed Benjamin Franklin Gates ancestor in treason, to get him to investigate the clues left in the John Wilkes Booth's Diary missing 18 pages of his dairy. That part of the diary was destroyed by Thomas Gates. Ben in a desperate attempt to clear his ancestor's name used advanced technology to examine the pages and found the half-finished clue, which he finished simply by stating "the price all men must pay is death." The first clue led to French Statue of Liberty, which lead to the Wood Carvings hidden in Resolute Desks. One of the Wood Carvings was found before, by Calvin Coolidge and a clue was left to Book of Secrets. Coolidge also created Mount Rushmore as a coverup to destroy the landmarks leading to Cíbola to protect it. The Book of Secrets has the image of the wood carving. The two wood carvings together lead to Black Hills. Benjamin Franklin Gates, Patrick Henry Gates, Abigail Chase, Riley Poole, Emily Appleton Gates and Mitch Wilkinson found the city of gold and got credit for the discovery.


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