Home: permanent residence, an institution, the place where one lives, targeting, an end point
Old English for home: Ham
Possible Browns:
- Ranger Brown of the Lamar Ranger Station
- Joe Brown of the Joe Brown Put-in, Joe Brown Creek and Joe Brown Trail
- Molly Brown House
- Anyone with a Brown surname (bay, beige, brown, ochre, bronze, chestnut, cinnamon, cinnabar, hazel, ecru, fawn, tan, sepia, puce, russet, umber, sorrel, auburn)
Who is this Brown guy, and why do we put-in?...
Places named Brown:
- Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado
- Brown Mountain Campground - which is on the Wood River - outside of Meeteetse, which might mean the end of warm waters - which is just downstream from Kirwin - which fits just so much of the puzzle…
- Brown Cemetery, Montana
- Brown Hill, New Mexico
- Brown Mountain Mine (in Ouray County, Colorado - Hear Me Chiefs speech)
- Brown Mountain, Colorado (Uncompahgre River, Cement Creek, etc...)
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!
Brown House - right at the bottom of Browns Hill Road - near the banks of the Little Snake River. Cemetary upstream (end is ever drawing nigh).
Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge - Warm Springs Cliff - Sand Canyon - Brown's Hole - Steamboat Rock (paddle?) - Canyon of Lodore (load ore?) - Hell's Canyon (death) - Echo Park Rd. (hear/listen)
Mt. Sheridan used to be Brown Mountain
Point Sublime named by Beulah Brown, right by artist point on the grand canyon
Norris Geyser has a trail which leads to the park ranger museum - Ranger Brown. End is ever drawing nigh - could mean on the left. could mean death. could mean where a stream ends. Could mean Tanatalus Creek (which does end here - and go up to the left - 'heavy loads' could be the weight over Tantalus' head)
Brown Mtn. Campground -> Kirwin (abandoned mining town - blaze on mountain right above)
Hmmm... There is a Highway 237 (line # of odd-syllables) in Wyoming - right where it meets Highway 89 (lines 8 and 9 are put in below the home of Brown and from there it's no place for the meek)- and it just happens to be called Grover Auburn (Brown).
Brown Trout - any creek with brown trout
A location with a brown-related name
Possible Interpretations:
- FF read Journal of a Trapper a dozen times (and probably Biography of a Grizzly), both about the Lamar Valley.
- Soda Butte Creek -> Canyon down -> Lamar Ranger Station
- Brown Sponge Spring is a black sulphur spring (tarry)
- Cooter Brown's in Cody
- Lander Wyoming used to be Fort Brown.
- Fort Washakie was once called Fort Brown. Right by Lander. Washakie Reservoir appears to have a small dam and possibly electrical generator. High Meadow Lake, Cliff Lake.
- Grafton Tyler Brown - painter
Other Ideas...:
The Home of Brown appears to be a very important clue.
Forrest has said that, if you knew the House of Brown, you could walk right to the treasure. So, it appears that WWWH is the first ‘clue’, and HoB is the second.
So, if you can locate the Home of Brown correctly, the treasure can be your’s in short order.
Supposedly.
Therefore, we consider the HoB to be one of the most important clues in the entire poem.
The Verdict:
THE HOME OF BROWN
The Forrest Fenn Treasure
IMPORTANT READING
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