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The Jesuit Gold: Secrets of the New World
By Randy Salars
A historical investigation of rumored Jesuit gold in the Americas. It follows mission records, the 1767 expulsion, later treasure claims, and the people and places often left out of the legend.
Revised Kindle edition coming soon. Planned U.S. Kindle list price: $9.99.
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Did Jesuit missions leave hidden gold in the Americas? The Jesuit Gold follows the records behind a durable treasure legend: mission estates and labor, the 1767 expulsion, a dated gold inquiry in Paraguay, and later printed claims about secret mines.
Randy Salars asks what maps, inventories, travel accounts, and archaeology can establish—and whose work and heritage the legend can obscure. Guaraní communities and today's custodians of historic places remain part of the story.
A source-led journey for readers drawn to the mystery without wanting a made-up cache location.
- Read mission records, estates, the 1767 expulsion, and a dated Paraguay gold inquiry.
- Trace later secret-mine claims to the maps, inventories, travel accounts, and archaeology that can test them.
- Keep Guaraní labor, heritage, and present-day custodians visible in the story.
Follow the legend without inventing a cache or losing the people behind it.
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The revised edition covers these chapters and reader resources:
- 1. The Gold Claim and the Record
- 2. The Order and Its Missions
- 3. Work, Wealth, and Who Held It
- 4. The 1767 Expulsion
- 5. A Document Becomes a Legend
- 6. Mission Places and Their Custodians
- 7. What Archaeology Can Answer
- 8. The Map and the Storyteller
- 9. Who Owns the Story and Objects?
- 10. A Jesuit-Gold Source Dossier
- A Source Card for a Jesuit-Gold Claim
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