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In 1873 there stood a stage station in the foothills of the Cerbat Mountains near Kingman, Arizona. Canyon Station, as it was called, was near the mouth of a narrow canyon that led to a road that twisted up the Cerbat Mountains before descending to Mineral Park.



Legend has it that in October of 1873 a man named Macallum, or perhaps it was McAllen, heard that the government was going to be shipping some $72,000 in gold coins from Prescott to Fort Mohave. Near Canyon Station, Macallum, along with an unknown partner stopped the stagecoach and relieved it of its strongbox before sending it on its way.



A posse was immediately dispatched. Anticipating this, the two bandits buried the heavy strongbox in order to put some distance between themselves and their pursuers. However, the posse soon caught up with the pair and when a gunfight ensued, Macallums partner was shot and killed in the melee. Macallum was arrested, convicted, and sent the Yuma Territorial Prison. Though questioned at length, the desperado refused to reveal the location of the buried loot.



However, while Macallum was serving his sentence he became very ill and upon his death bed, relayed the story to another inmate. When the prisoner was released he wasted no time in following up with the lead and headed to Canyon Station.