Featured Question with Forrest Fenn and The Thrill of the Chase Treasure Hunt: Punctuation

Mr. Fenn,

There has been a lot of talk about the punctuation in your poem and how it might help someone who is searching for your treasure. That’s a bunch of hooee, isn’t it!?

Forrest Burke

Dear Mr. Burke,

Sometimes punctuation can be confusing and that’s why I’m very careful when I use it. To illustrate: I just received an email from a man who has stage 4 liver cancer. He said he knows where the treasure is and tomorrow he is going to Colorado to get it. “Will you please wish me good luck,”?, he said. I replied, “No, you seem so positive and I don’t want to give you an advantage over other searchers, so I won’t say, good luck to you. f

Update as of 8/24/18

The search community continues to come together to raise funds for Jdiggins, a wonderful person/searcher who lost her home and business in the California wildfires. As of today, Cowlazars updated the following on the raffle drawing.

$21,044.94 donated by 283 people. 805 tickets in the drawing.

7 days to go to reach $26,255.72.

$5210.78 to go! (Forrest said if donations reached 26,255.72, he would throw in another 10K)

This raffle consists of multiple prizes. The top prize including #1 Forrest Fenn Searcher Coin with all three books signed by Forrest (The Thrill of the Chase, Too Far to Walk, and Once Upon A While). BUT THERE ARE LOTS MORE: Images below of prizes, and full details on Hint of Riches Forum of drawing.

DONATE NOW (Click to go to the Paypal Donate Site)

There is also the Auction for the ORIGINAL Gypsy Drawing going on at Cynthia’s Site.

As of today, the bid is up to $3500.00. All proceeds will go to the Jdiggins fund as well. The image is the one on page 43 of TTOTC and is shown below.