Wham Paymaster Robbery
Wham Paymaster Robbery: still unexplained.
$28,000+ in gold & silver coin
Robbers ambushed an Army paymaster and his Buffalo Soldier escort after a 90-minute gunfight. The coin was never recovered.
- The site is documented at Gila Valley, near Pima, AZ; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
- Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
- What is there: $28,000+ in gold & silver coin.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- The site is documented at Gila Valley, near Pima, AZ; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
- Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
- What is there: $28,000+ in gold & silver coin.
- 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.
Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.
- Wham Paymaster Robbery · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia
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