The Silver Madonna -- The Lost Treasure Ship of the California Desert -- The Goat Herder's Lost Treasure -- The Lost Treasure of Shafter Lake -- The Lost Dutchman Mine of the Superstition Mountains -- The Huachuca Canyon Treasure -- Seventeen Tons of Gold at Lost Mesa -- The Lost Treasure of Cancino Arroyo -- The Lost Grierson Fortune -- The Red Bone Cave Treasure -- The Silver Bullets -- The Lost Gold Mine of the Cossatot -- The Lost Treasure of Skeleton Canyon -- The Lost Yoachum Dollars: an Ozark Mystery -- The Beale Treasure -- Aztec Treasure in Texas and America's First Bible -- Lost Treasure in the Monahans Sandhills -- Chief Victorio's Gold -- The Lost Billy Bowlegs Treasure -- Gasparilla's Lost Treasure -- Colonel Dunham's Lost Payroll -- Cumberland Mountain Silver Mines -- Devil's Canyon Gold -- The Incredible Journey of the Confederate Treasury.

The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the ""Madonna""), to a cache of gold, silver, and jewelry that was rumored to also contain the first Bible in the Americas. What makes these tales even more compelling is that none of these known-to-be-lost treasures have been discovered, although modern detecting technology has made them eminently discoverable.