Jean Lafitte's Buried Plunder

• The search zones are the bayous and barrier islands of Barataria south of New Orleans and the Galveston area where Lafitte later based; both are full of local Lafitte-buried-it-here sites.
• Lafitte was a privateer with real plunder but kept moving; no verified Lafitte cache has ever been found, and most maps are 20th-century inventions.
• The terrain is private, marshy, and storm-changed, with little documentary anchor; treat it as folklore.

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• The search zones are the bayous and barrier islands of Barataria south of New Orleans and the Galveston area where Lafitte later based; both are full of local Lafitte-buried-it-here sites.
• Lafitte was a privateer with real plunder but kept moving; no verified Lafitte cache has ever been found, and most maps are 20th-century inventions.
• The terrain is private, marshy, and storm-changed, with little documentary anchor; treat it as folklore.
• Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
• Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
• Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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