32+ Byron Preiss The Secret Treasure Background. As of october 2019 only three of the twelve boxes have been found. In 1980 or 1981, when byron preiss visited houston to bury a casque, there was an antique steam locomotive (number 982) prominently.

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The idea was to match an image to a verse and use that pair to find a casque. Back in 1982 byron preiss published a treasure hunt book called: He spent a year or so traveling around the country, burying small ceramic boxes two feet underground.

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This is not the original publication of the secret. The secret, illustrated by john palencar, containing a dozen images and verses. But before he revealed the secret locations to anyone else, the author died in 2005. There are sections of the book that are missing, and the original text has been changed in places.