SANTA FE, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Don Dickens reached a peak on The Promontory at Yellowstone National Park, certain he would saunter down a few hundred feet and find the 40-pound chest of treasures that Santa Fe author and artifacts collector Forrest Fenn says he hid six years ago, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

What Dickens discovered, like thousands of other treasure hunters, was disappointment. The box wasn't there, reported The New Mexican (http://bit.ly/2ccy6OJ).

Dickens, 44, said that, as he and a cousin descended the mountain that day in August, feeling dejected and disil...