The Jesuit Treasure House

About the Book

After the Jesuit Order of Missionaries were expelled from Mexico in 1767 a rumor persisted that a substantial treasure of gold, silver and gems was concealed in an obscure Mission in the Sierra Madre mountains.

During the Mexican Revolution, of 1913, a diverse group of treasure seekers - led by an ex Jesuit priest, - set out to find that Mission. This is their story as revealed by historical events, speculation, and reminiscences of the author's father, who actually traveled part of the way with the group. Constantly harassed by Pancho Villas's lieutenant, "the Butcher" Rudolph Fierro, they eventually came to the almost impenetrable forbidden lands of the war-like Yaqui Indians. Scouting for them was the well known Buckskin Fran Leslie of Tombstone and Apache fame. And, complicating their quest, they also had with them an exotic African flamenco dance whose beauty not only inflamed Fierro, but also those with her.

About the Author

The author has been an adventure film producer and lecturer, and a past director of the Los Angeles Adventurers Club. He has traveled extensively throughout South America, Africa, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, and through his numerous appearance on television here and abroad, became known as The Legend Hunter. He rafted down the Amazon River, is credited with the discovery of a pre-Inca city in the Andes Mountains of Peru, and the discovery of Spanish Conquistador armor once exhibited at the Southwestern Museum in Los Angeles. Romain Wilhelmsen also made international news after being attacked by bandits while exploring in the mountains of Columbia, and wounded in the gunfight which ensued. His accounts of these exploits have been published in a number of men's magazines. He was born in Detroit.