The Mysterious And Secret Order Of The Knights Of The Golden Circle

Author : Roy William Roush, Dr, PhD,Dr Roy William Roush Ph D
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972307265

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The Mysterious and Secret Order of the Knights of the Golden Circle by Roy William Roush, Dr, PhD,Dr Roy William Roush Ph D Pdf

This is an incredible story about the little known and secret order of ?The Knights of the Golden Circle? during the Civil War period, their plans to start another war, and the huge treasures they left behind. But, they had started many years before the war began with bold plans of imperialism to gain more territory for our growing nation (which brought Texas into the Union), and also with amazing plans to annex Mexico. Later, they became devout believers in the rights of the southern cause and against the North imposing it's will against them. When the Civil War started, they resorted to drastic measures and went underground to oppose the North and the Union Army with secretive and bold actions, including sabotage, infiltration of the Government, and a very efficient spy network. Many top politicians, officials, and men of importance were members. They were so effective that President Lincoln once referred to them as a ?Fifth Column? which might have been the original use of the term. After the war was over, they refused to accept the terms of the surrender and started making plans to restart the war at a later date. But they needed a great amount of money and support. So they started collecting money, gold, silver, and jewelry, plus arms and ammunition, and buried them in many parts of the country in old mining tunnels, pits and holes that they dug, and then assigned armed sentries to protect them from being found. But by the time they had amassed their fortune and supplies, World War One brought an end to their plans. Also, most of them had died off anyway by then. But the treasures they buried, which some have estimated to be worth billions of dollars, is the stuff that dreams are made of to treasure hunters. The author, who is well-known in the field of treasure hunting, learned of this immense treasure years ago, and through his research has presented this information here - - not only bringing out this little known part of American history, but also has provided much information on the treasures, including some rare and never-before-published treasure maps of some of the treasure sites.

Author : David C. Keehn
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807150054

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Knights of the Golden Circle by David C. Keehn Pdf

In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to "colonize" the northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading prosecession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly prosecession "fire-eaters," which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancy.

Author : Daniel J. Duke,Teresa F. Duke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620559673

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The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James by Daniel J. Duke,Teresa F. Duke Pdf

A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death • Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records • Provides photographic evidence, a journal of Jesse James’s, and historical records that prove James faked his death, verified by experts and civic authorities • Debunks the 1995 DNA test results of James’s supposed remains The story of the notorious outlaw Jesse James’s assassination at the hands of Robert Ford has been clouded with mystery ever since its inception. Now, James’s great-great-grandchildren Daniel and Teresa Duke present the results of more than 20 years of exhaustive research into state and federal records, photographs, newspaper reports, diaries, and a 1995 DNA test in search of the truth behind Jesse James’s demise. Explaining how the accepted version of the history of Jesse James is wrong, the authors confirm their family’s oral tradition that James faked his own death in 1882 and lived out his remaining days in Texas. They methodically unravel the legend surrounding his death, with evidence vetted by qualified experts and civic authorities. They share the journal of their great-great-grandfather, kept from 1871 to 1876 and verified to be written in James’s handwriting. They reveal forensically confirmed photographs of James before and after his supposed killing, including one of James attending his own funeral. Examining James’s life both before and after his faked death, they provide an account of where he lived and who he associated with, including his interactions with secret societies. They compare the contradictory newspaper reports of James’s death with accounts by his family and associates, which support that the man buried as James was actually his cousin, and reveal how James tricked authorities into believing he had been killed. Further supporting their claim, the authors debunk the DNA test results of the exhumation of James’s body in 1995. The Dukes detail the ways in which the test was fraudulent, an assertion supported by the deputy counselor for Clay County at the time of the testing. Backed by a wealth of evidence, the descendants of Jesse James conclusively prove what really happened to America’s Robin Hood.

Author : John S. Craig
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875863337

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Peculiar Liaisons by John S. Craig Pdf

Presenting famous and infamous individuals and events that shocked the world and helped set the scene for today's history, this book illustrates how little is really known about some of the most dramatic and most-studied events. Who motivated whom, how and why, and what counterplots and alternative scenarios may have been at play? "Terrorism," the fomenting of revolution, undermining from within, and trumped up events to spur a nation to go to war: these techniques are not new. The public's interest in certain personalities never seems to wane -- Mata Hari, Gavrilo Princip, Sidney Reilly, T.E. Lawrence, Jimmy Doolittle, Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich and Lee Harvey Oswald among others. Each chapter presents two or three characters and elaborates on their lives and how they relate to historical events in the 20th century. The book starts with an incident in 1903 in the Balkans and moves chronologically forward to the assassination of JFK

Author : Daniel J. Duke
Publisher : Destiny Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620558203

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Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure by Daniel J. Duke Pdf

An investigation into the lost treasures of Jesse James and the Freemasons and their connections to the Templars, Rosicrucians, and the Founding Fathers • Explains how Jesse James used techniques involving sacred geometry, gematria, and esoteric symbols to hide his treasures and encode maps • Provides instructions for using the encoding template employed by Jesse James and the Freemasons to hide and recover treasure and sacred relics • Shows how the encoding template confirms the existence of treasures on Oak Island and Victorio Peak and can be traced to a 16th-century book containing a secret map of the New World and the “hooked X” of the Knights Templar Jesse James left behind secret diaries and coded treasure maps. Working to decrypt these maps, Daniel J. Duke--the great-great-grandson of Jesse James--reveals hidden treasures yet to be recovered as well as connections between the infamous train robber and Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Founding Fathers, and Jewish mysticism. The author explains how Jesse James faked his death and lived out his final years under the name James L. Courtney. He uncovers James’ affiliation with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society that buried Confederate gold across the United States, and shows how the hidden treasures coded into James’ maps were not affiliated with the KGC but with the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, and the treasure of the Temple Mount. Using sacred geometry, gematria, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life symbol, the author explains the encoded map technique used by the Freemasons to hide and later recover treasures, an esoteric template known as the “Veil”. He shows how the Veil template confirms the locations of Jesse James’ recovered treasures in Texas as well as other suspected treasure locations, such as the Oak Island Money Pit and Victorio Peak in New Mexico. Tracing knowledge of the Veil template back through the centuries, the author reveals the Veil hidden on the cover of a 16th-century book that contains a secret map of the New World and the “hooked X” symbol of the Knights Templar. He shows how the template was used not only to hide treasures but also sacred knowledge and relics, such as within the Bruton Vault, which originally contained secrets tied to Francis Bacon, the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and the founding of the United States. Applying the Veil template alongside the esoteric secrets of Poussin’s famous painting, Et In Arcadia Ego, and Cassini’s Celestial Globe, Duke shows how the template reveals other Templar and Freemason treasure sites scattered throughout America and around the world.

Author : Randolph W Farmer
Publisher : Histria Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592112296

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The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas by Randolph W Farmer Pdf

The United States today is a divided nation and some say the country may be heading toward breakup, or possibly civil war. That has happened before and the result was disastrous. As many as 750,000 Americans perished during the Civil War. A study of the causes of our last Civil War may help to prevent another.The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) played a major role in starting the Civil War in the United States. Although intended to remain a secret organization of conspirators, it is perhaps the most well-documented conspiracy in United States history. The goal of the KGC was the creation of a new society separate from the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of slavery into Latin America.The KGC existed in almost every state in the Union, but nowhere was it as powerful and successful as it was in Texas. Several governors, many senators and military leaders were members, having taken an oath to support the organization and their fellow members. Most of the documents generated by the KGC were destroyed after the war ended as its members feared execution for treason. Not everything was destroyed, though. This book relies on documents created by the organization and its members that have not previously been used by researchers. Many members of this organization remained in positions of authority in state affairs after the abolition of slavery. This book goes far beyond previous published work in establishing the identities of the members of this organization who promoted and encouraged the most disastrous war in American history.Randolph W. Farmer is a native Texan from a family whose ancestors first came to Texas as early as 1817 when it was still a Spanish possession. He is the author of two previously published books on Texas history.

Author : Warren Getler,Bob Brewer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : 9780743219686

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Shadow of the Sentinel by Warren Getler,Bob Brewer Pdf

Explores the legacy of a Civil War-era secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, and describes efforts to crack the society's system of codes and symbols to identify hidden treasure sites across the American south and west.

Author : Roy William Roush, Dr, PhD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972307273

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How to Find the Treasures of the Knights of the Golden Circle by Roy William Roush, Dr, PhD Pdf

This is the second book in the series and gives all of the information and clues about the Knights of The Golden Circle and their treasures that was published for 17 years in the prestigious ?Treasure Hunter Confidential Newsletter.? It was very informative and was available only to subscribers for $100 per year. (It also contained stories and information on other treasures as well.) Although the Editor, Larry Williams, was an excellent researcher and writer, much of the information came from treasure hunters and researchers themselves, giving tips, ideas, possible locations, how to recognize the signs, what they might mean, and even sketches and drawings - including a map overlay that could possible show where other treasures were located after you found one of them since normally, more than one treasure was buried at a location.

Author : Knights of the Golden Circle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Secession
ISBN : UOMDLP:any1772:0001.001

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K.G.C. by Knights of the Golden Circle Pdf

Author : Warren Getler,Bob Brewer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439108949

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Rebel Gold by Warren Getler,Bob Brewer Pdf

As a boy growing up in rural Arkansas, Bob Brewer often heard from his uncle and his great-uncle about a particular tree in the woods, the "Bible Tree," filled with strange carvings. Years later he would learn that this tree was carved with symbols associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil War­era secret society that had buried gold coins and other treasure in various remote locations across the South and Southwest in hopes of someday funding a second War Between the States. These secret caches were guarded by sentinels, men whose responsibility it was to watch and protect these sites. To his astonishment, Bob discovered that both his uncle and his great-uncle had been twentieth-century sentinels, and that he had grown up near an important KGC treasure site. In Shadow of the Sentinel, Bob Brewer and investigative journalist Warren Getler tell the fascinating story of the Knights of the Golden Circle and the hidden caches the KGC established across the country. Brewer reveals how, with agonizing effort, he eventually deciphered the fiendishly complicated KGC codes and ciphers, which drew heavily on images associated with Freemasonry. (Many of the key KGC post­Civil War leaders were Scottish Rite Masons, who used the cover of that secret fraternity to conduct their activities.) Using his knowledge of KGC symbolism to crack coded maps, Brewer has located several KGC caches and has recovered gold coins, guns, and other treasure from some of them. Shadow of the Sentinel is the most comprehensive account yet of the activities of the KGC after the Civil War and, indeed, into the 1900s. Getler and Brewer suggest that the clandestine network of KGC operatives was far wider than previously thought, and that it included Jesse James, the former Confederate guerrilla whose stage and bank robberies helped to fill KGC treasure chests. This is a rousing and provocative adventure that weaves together one man's personal quest with an intriguing, little-known chapter in America's hidden history.

Author : Mark Christopher Carnes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300051468

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Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America by Mark Christopher Carnes Pdf

In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian America and that secret societies, such as the Freemasons, offered men and boys an alternative, male counterculture.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979441197

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The Knights of the Golden Circle by Charles River Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the society *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "This country without slave labor would be completely worthless. We can only live and exist by that species of labor; and hence I am willing to fight for the last." - William Nugent, letter addressed to Eleanor Nugent, September 7, 1863 In 1934, a pair of teenagers from Baltimore by the names of Theodore Jones and Henry Grob embarked on what they thought would be another lazy summer afternoon. They popped in at the soda shop and idly browsed through the aisles of few local mom-and-pop stores, but when they could not kill their boredom, they decided to return to Grob's place for an impromptu treasure hunt. Clunky metal detectors in hand, they roamed around the backyard, discovering and delighting in odd metal knickknacks along the way. What started out as just another slow-moving summer's day turned out to be anything but when one of the detectors began to go off. Intrigued, the pair grabbed a spade each and shoveled like their lives depended on it. What they found was none other than a rusted pot of 5,000 glittering gold coins, with the mysterious words "Great Seal of the K'S of the G.C." stamped onto the edges of each token. What ensued was a bitter dispute over the ownership of said coins, one that is still raging on via the parties' descendants to this day. But who were these "K's," and why was this treasure so coveted? As it turned out, the boys had stumbled upon artifacts left over by an ambitious secret society that operated in the midst of the American Civil War, with no less an aim than to establish a brand new sovereignty composed of territories in Mexico, Central America, the Confederacy, and the Caribbean. In the end, the plans would all go awry, and Emperor Maximilian's life would end before a firing squad in Mexico in 1867, but the group's aim to strengthen slavery in the Americas made plenty of contemporaries consider the Knights of the Golden Circle a threat, particularly in the Union, where suspected membership could land one in jail. Accusations implicated figures as high up as former President Franklin Pierce, and when the society went underground after the Civil War, conspiracy theories naturally began to emerge, often centered on the belief the group would attempt to spark a second rebellion. Indeed, when Jones and Grob found the cache of coins, some immediately theorized they had discovered the money the Knights of the Golden Circle intended to use to finance the next war. The Knights of the Golden Circle: The History and Legacy of One of 19th Century America's Most Notorious Secret Societies examines the history and development of the order, the master con artist who founded it, and how the group's ambitions led to their inevitable undoing. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Knights of the Golden Circle like never before.

Author : Edward Josiah Stearns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4S5I

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A Platform for All Parties by Edward Josiah Stearns Pdf

Author : Philip Van Doren Stern
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781891053603

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Secret Missions of the Civil War by Philip Van Doren Stern Pdf

Civil War historian and celebrated author Philip Van Doren Stern presents an underground history woven from first hand accounts of Civil War spies, scouts, detectives and double agents. Secret Missions of the Civil War gives an inside look into the birth of modern spy warfare: secret codes, Allen Pinkerton, assassinations, McClellan's personal spy, European arms dealing, the Secret Service, Morgan and Mosby, the stunning Mrs. Rose O’Neal, privateers, the New York draft riots and torpedoes. Through astute and carefully documented commentary, Stern shows how seemingly random acts of underground warfare dramatically influenced the course of the war and American history.

Author : Steven Sora
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594778674

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Secret Societies of America's Elite by Steven Sora Pdf

An expose of the dark and critical role secret societies play within the ruling families in America and their influence on American democracy, current events, and world history. • Reveals the enormous influence secret societies still have on contemporary American life. • Shows how the secret Masonic cells that smuggled in the democratic ideals inspiring the American Revolution also enabled the future elite of the new society to build huge fortunes. Elite and secret societies have always been a major force in the history of Western civilization. The alliances formed in secret societies such as the Knights Templar, the Knights of Christ, and the Freemasons transcended patriotism and religious beliefs and had a powerful influence on the establishment of the United States of America. While these secret associations of merchants, smugglers, occultists, gamblers, spies, and slavers succeeded in freeing the United States from foreign domination, the dark side is that the elite used their secret connections to further their own wealth and power. These secret cells did not hesitate to sponsor the assassination of a president and even attempted to break up the union on several occasions when it was deemed expedient. From the Sons of Liberty and the Essex Junto to the Ku Klux Klan, secret societies have played critical roles in building the fortunes of America's elite. Now Steven Sora reveals in alarming detail how secretive societies continue to wield power even today as organizations such as Yale's Skull & Bones unite America's modern ruling families as strongly as Masonic Lodges once connected the Astors, Livingstons, and Roosevelts. Their immense power and wealth allow this elite to control America to an even greater degree than the Templars once dominated Europe.