Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the ...

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Forrest Fenn was rich, and he had a flair for the dramatic. So he announced in 2010 that he had hidden a box of "treasure," made up of gold and jewels, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.