A cedar chest that had been packed with gold coins robbed from a bank just south of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860 was recovered 50 years later by a fishing guide in King's Mill Pond. Only a handful of coins was left in the chest, which had mostly rotted away. Is the rest settled beneath the silt of the pond today? The Appalachian Mountains have witnessed untold fortunes gained and lost. The confluence and clashes of a number of cultures Indian, French, Spanish, pioneer, and Union and Confederatte ....