Wyoming:
- Meeteetse Creek
- Niobrara River (meaning ‘spreading water’)
- Absaroka Mountains
- Cameahwait Lake
- Inyan Kara Mountain
- Pingora Peak (meaning ‘rocky peak’)
- Popo Agie River (meaning ‘head waters’)
- Taminah Lake (meaning ‘spring’)
- Teewinot Mountain (meaning ‘many pinnacles’)
- Togwotee Pass (meaning ‘goes from this place’ or ‘shoots with a spear’)
- Tosi Creek
Indian Place-Names in the Rocky Mountain States
Montana:
- Choteau County
- Bannock County
- Arlee Lake
- Camas
- Charlo
- Ekalaka
- Kalispell
- Missoula (meaning ‘river of awe’)
- Moiese Lake
- Pasamaria - stinking water
- Winnecook - beautiful waters
Some time in the middle of 2010, wealthy author/collector/archaeologist Forrest Fenn hid a medieval chest filled with gold coins and other valuable artefacts somewhere in the Rocky Mountains for anyone to go and retrieve. He wrote a book called ‘The Thrill of the Chase’, in which he hid clues to help people find the treasure.
Inside the book is a poem which secretly encodes the whereabouts of this treasure chest. If you can solve the puzzle, you can go and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not well over a million) right now!
But, hold your horses! It’s not that easy. Thousands upon thousands of people have tried - with absolutely no luck whatsoever!
Fortunately for you, we’re here to help guide you right to Fenn’s gold!
New Mexico:
- Abiquiu - wooded point of land
- Callamongue - where they hurled down stones
- Chama - where they wrestled
- Chipiwi - obsidian
- Cochiti
- Na n mphonu’u - below
- Ojo Caliente (Spanish) - hot eye
- Otowi - gap where water sinks
- Taos
- Tesuque
- Tohatchi
- Tucumcari (meaning ‘lookout’)
- Tqunltsili - crystal water flow out
- Nday - water or creek
Colorado:
- Cheyenne Wells
- Kiowa
- Manitou Springs - great spirit
- Niwot
- Ouray
- Uncompahgre (meaning hot water spring)
- Apishipa - stinking water
- Cheraw - sparkling waters
- Cochetopa - buffalo pass
- Keota - gone to visit
- Kokomo - young grandmother
- Seedskedee - prairie hen river
- Minnequa - to
- Olathe - beautiful
- Pagosa - hot waters
- Piceance - tall grass
- Currahee - ‘it stands alone’ in Cherokee
- Chediski - ‘white mountain stands back alone’
- Squaxin - ‘alone’
- Canastota - ‘pine tree standing alone’
- Pismu or Pismo - tar
- Minco - wise leader
- Waunakee - peaceful place
- Todokozh - salty or bitter waters
- Ahhaquahla - running water high up
- Tecopa - high water
- Kacheckmak - high water cliff
- Peahala - rushing waters
- Watsessing - stony hill
Other Phrases:
INDIAN PLACE-NAMES
The Forrest Fenn Treasure
IMPORTANT READING
Other Phrases:
- Adahy - lives in the woods
- Apiatan - wooden lance
- Ashishishe - crow
- Enapay - brave
- Enkoodabooaoo - alone
- Espowyes - light on mountain
- Ezhno - alone, solitary
- Hassun - stone
- Hok-ee - abandoned
- Howahkan - mysterious voice
- Kitchi - brave
- Kohana - tarry scant, swift
- Langundo - peaceful
- Mongwau - owl
- Nadie - wise
- Napayshni - brave
- Nawkaw - wood
- Ohitekah - brave
- Onacona - owl
- Tse - rock, stone
- Wahchinksapa - wise
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