It all started when Mamie Mitchell found a crude map under the floor board in the parlor of her family home place. After she delivered it to the authorities, word spread. Fortune hunters descended on Black Hills hoping to find treasure buried by a notorious gang led by Bart McMaster. He had frequented the place, once a brothel owned by Mamie’s great-grandmother, Sadie. After a heist, Bart hid the map only hours before the gang was gunned down.
But Mamie knew that the treasure was long gone. Miss Sadie and her girls never needed for anything. Bart saw to that.
~kat
100 words for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction Challenge prompted by the photo above by © Björn Rudberg.
like mercury colliding... 
March 22nd, 2018 at 3:15 pm
Great Kat
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March 22nd, 2018 at 3:38 pm
A bit of old west lore…totally fiction! That was fun! 😊
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March 22nd, 2018 at 5:40 pm
A likely tale! I reckon you know more than you’re saying!
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:31 pm
Haha! I’m sure there is much more to the story Peter, but only so much can be told in 100 words! 😉
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March 22nd, 2018 at 4:12 pm
Nicely done, a treasure hunt with a twist, there are them fools searching them hills.
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March 22nd, 2018 at 4:14 pm
Yep…I imagine many a treasure found its way into the hands of those closest to the thieves back in the day.
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March 22nd, 2018 at 5:47 pm
Stories of treasures abound! There is a story that Jessie James buried treasure on land owned by one of our friends. Unfortunately, it has never been found, and no brothels as far as I know. I enjoyed the story very much.
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Thanks Susan. Treasure stories are always intriguing, but mostly the stuff of legend. Modern thieves hide their booty in offshore island banks nowadays! 😄
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:55 pm
Yes indeed!
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:09 pm
But there’s still the chance some of it might still be out there…!
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:28 pm
Haha! Dream on! 😄
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:27 pm
Excellent turn of fortune.. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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March 22nd, 2018 at 6:34 pm
Yes for those ladies, for sure! 😊
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March 23rd, 2018 at 3:45 am
So, you went to the Black Hills too??
I certainly hope that Bart and the boys got value for the money they left behind, before they were gunned down. Going out with a bang, as it were. 😆
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March 23rd, 2018 at 11:14 am
Haha…I get your drift. 😉 Now I must check out your tale of the Black Hills. 🙂
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March 23rd, 2018 at 11:24 am
Better that someone enjoyed the money instead of being hidden away for years!
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March 23rd, 2018 at 11:29 am
Absolutely. Something tells me those ladies earned an indefinite vacation from the “office”.
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March 23rd, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Good old Bart, those girls were lucky. So well-written, I could smell the sweat and the beer and hear the music in the back room.
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March 26th, 2018 at 7:55 pm
Thanks Jilly! I just found your comment in my SPAM box. Sorry for the delay. I really appreciate your comments. 100 words is not a lot to work with! 🙂
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March 24th, 2018 at 1:20 am
Good for you Bart, doing the right thing before you died.
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March 24th, 2018 at 7:29 am
Yep. Maybe he wasn’t all bad.
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March 24th, 2018 at 1:50 pm
No gold in them thar hills–but they sure had a good time looking for it.
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March 24th, 2018 at 6:09 pm
I’m sure! Nothing like a good treasure hunt! 😊
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March 25th, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Gold was well spent I think… bless the hopeful dreamers, maybe it will be a great spot for a new cafeteria
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March 25th, 2018 at 5:01 pm
There’s a good thought. Awesome photo Björn. 😊
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March 25th, 2018 at 10:57 pm
Great story. Wonderfully put together.
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March 25th, 2018 at 11:14 pm
Thank you! 😊
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March 26th, 2018 at 3:36 am
Great story, its feels like an old yarn that grandma told from earlier days – love it.
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March 26th, 2018 at 6:23 am
Thanks. We had a few of those old yarns in my family that turned out to be fantastical and not true. But as kids we loved hearing and retelling them.
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March 27th, 2018 at 9:23 am
Love that last bit!
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March 27th, 2018 at 11:00 am
Haha…At least someone benefited from the treasure! 😉
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