El Tesoro de los Jesuitas — The Jesuit Gold of the Border
The legend of the Jesuit Treasure is one of the most enduring treasure myths of the US Southwest and northern Mexico. When the Spanish Crown expelled the Jesuits from New Spain in 1767, the order was said to have hidden vast stores of gold and silver throughout the Sonoran Desert rather than let it fall into royal hands. The most famous hiding place is said to be in the Sierra Madre, near a cave marked with a cryptic Jesuit symbol — a heart pierced by an arrow above three crosses. Over the centuries, countless treasure hunters — Mexican, Anglo, and Native — have searched for this gold. Some cl