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For April Fools, person in charge for the Anza Borrego Desert in California to gyration your wildest yarn. Tell a tale of Pegleg Smith, a ablaze wild character. Tell a narrative of recovered gold, lonesome to misplace it once more. Tell a story that would generate Pegleg gratifying.

Pegleg Smith was a mountaintop man, guide, colt stealer and slicker. In the mid-1800s, he and another man were winning a bundle of furs intersectant the wild from the Colorado River to sell in Los Angeles. They were effort low on hose down and Pegleg, so titled because he had a wooden leg, climbed to the top of a butte sounding for dampen. It was one of 3 buttes in the span.

While on top of the butte, he gathered many black pebbles and at a halt them in his pouch.

And so begins the content of the mythical Pegleg Smith Lost Mine.

When Pegleg got to Los Angeles, he studious the dark pebbles were gilded nuggets, mud-beplastered beside a muddy "desert varnish". He managed to put together a few expeditions to go rear to the point for more than gold, but could ne'er breakthrough it over again.

He was predisposed to let somebody know someone who would listen (for a iridescent of whisky or two) just about his privileged gold hole in the ground. He sold maps to it. He oversubscribed claims to it. And prospectors orientated out to the wild to breakthrough the butte splashed with gilded nuggets.

Number of instances

Supposedly, more than people have searched for the Lost Pegleg Smith Mine more than any another mislaid mine. If a person has saved it, they're not proverb.

That is, unless they're at the Pegleg Monument the prime Saturday in April, involved in the Pegleg Smith Liars' Contest.

Anyone can enter the pursuit. The one and only requirements are the fictitious myth has to either be in the region of Pegleg Smith or penetrating for gold ingots. Costumes and deference add to the account.

The pursuit begins at dusk. It is aweigh to keep under surveillance. Bring blankets, a meadow stool and thing lukewarm to cocktail and sit support and wallow in the chronicle informatory.

Pegleg's Monument is a pyramid-shaped pile of rocks in the order of 7 miles easterly of the town of Borrego Springs. For more substance visit