Become a fan of h2g2 Daniel Boone, a legendary American
frontiersman, was once quoted as saying, 'I ain't never been
lost, but I may have been confused once or twice'. With all
respect to Mr Boone - who was born in Pennsylvania, incidentally
- it's incredibly easy to get lost and confused in the forests
and mountains of Pennsylvania. In the course of the state's
300-plus year recorded history, many people have gotten lost and
confused. And they've lost plenty of things while stumbling
around in the Pennsylvania woodlands - including a surprising
amount of gold and silver. Late in the 1690s, a group of French
Canadians, led by Louis Frontenac, departed New Orleans and
headed towards Montreal. They sailed up the Mississippi River to
the Ohio River turn-off. They then went up the Ohio to the
location of present-day Pittsburgh and took the left fork up the
Allegheny River. On their rafts were kegs filled with gold coins
destined for the Royal Governor of Canada's treasury. Upon
reaching present-day Potter County,