Where was your Home of Brown?

[annie]

BROWN LAKE - a small glacial lake in Montana, home of Brown Trout. The tributary from Brown Lake flows into three lakes - ( put in below the home of Brown) alongside the creek i followed as part of my solve. 💧

[annie]

Brown also refers to the Pueblo home or ABODE.. The adobe brick, used later in concealing the chest. Put in below. And also Brown Umber - N Umber the clues below all have a number reference one to nine.

[indigojones]

My home of Brown was Pueblo, Colorado part of my Rainbow prism drawing.

I remember an interviewer asking Forrest "what is home the of Brown" he replied "If I told you that you'd go right straight to it" this was correct in my solution for a 40 degree angle from Pueblo takes you straight to 'Adelaide' along Phantom Canyon Road in Fremont county, this is where the blaze 'cistern' is.

indigo.

[annie]

Jul 12, 2020 16:44:59 GMT -5 indigojones said:

My home of Brown was Pueblo, Colorado part of my Rainbow prism drawing.

I remember an interviewer asking Forrest "what is home the of Brown" he replied "If I told you that you'd go right straight to it" this was correct in my solution for a 40 degree angle from Pueblo takes you straight to 'Adelaide' along Phantom Canyon Road in Fremont county, this is where the blaze 'cistern' is.

indigo.

Forrest. Said “right straight to it” quite often. I think the treasure was on a line intersection  drawn between the start and another point. Which is why he always said that starting point \  WWWH was so important. 

[indigojones]

Jul 12, 2020 18:10:02 GMT -5 annie said:

Jul 12, 2020 16:44:59 GMT -5 indigojones said:

My home of Brown was Pueblo, Colorado part of my Rainbow prism drawing.

I remember an interviewer asking Forrest "what is home the of Brown" he replied "If I told you that you'd go right straight to it" this was correct in my solution for a 40 degree angle from Pueblo takes you straight to 'Adelaide' along Phantom Canyon Road in Fremont county, this is where the blaze 'cistern' is.

indigo.

Forrest. Said “right straight to it” quite often. I think the treasure was on a line intersection  drawn between the start and another point. Which is why he always said that starting point \  WWWH was so important. 

Hi annie, if you look at where the red pin is on my circle of geometry you will see that what you said is true. The pin is along the line between 'Colorado Springs' and 'Canon City' which is a projection of 40 degrees from 'Pueblo'

[goldwatch]

If "home of Brown" refers to the brown dirt of the earth, "put in below" means the treasure was buried.
Just a wild idea.

[annie]

Jul 13, 2020 10:58:04 GMT -5 goldwatch said:

If "home of Brown" refers to the brown dirt of the earth, "put in below" means the treasure was buried.
Just a wild idea.

Yes - i mashed around the word ‘INTER’ for a while. 

[jakebrakes]

MY HOME OF BROWN: I was focused on pottery and the pot creek area near Taos, and so I found a place that is historically significant as well as archaeologically significant as the place where the puebloans as well as some plains indian traders got their micaceous clay to make what they call Brownware pottery... coated with this clay, which has mica in it, as a slip it makes the pottery heat resistant so they could cook with it. So the brownware was utilitarian but in demand among the ancients, and they traded it with other tribes, and modern day researchers have identified clay from this mine in pottery from lots of tribes. It is located near the Picuris Pueblo and they and the Taos Pueblo were the main people who used it. It now belongs to the Picuris Pueblo as part of their "aboriginal homeland" awarded to them as part of a lawsuit settlement against the former mine owners.

They called it the "pot dirt place" or "molo nan na." So brown pottery and brown clay = home of brown for me.

It is on the site of the old US HILL MICA mine in Taos County, New Mexico. Near Vadito and not far from PENASCO (anyone remember the little boy from penasco ?) It is right off the HIGH ROAD TO TAOS, highway 518.

(My full solution is listed below my avatar)

Cheers.

[jakebrakes]

P.S. I do not believe the chest was hidden on the mine site, or that you even needed to go to the mine site if you had the poem figured out. So FF's talk about staying away from mines would be valid for this solution. The mine was just a clue that pointed you to the final hiding place, maybe 1/2 mile away from the mine.

[bdalameda]

I know this is an old thread but I found something very interesting while poking around in some fishing guides about the Madison River. Could this be the Home of Brown?

From a Fishing Guide Book:


The river swings back to the road about two miles from Madison Junction at the western (downstream) end of what is known to fishermen as Big Bend. The river is squeezed between high banks and the current accelerates around a couple of right-left, curves and shoots down a three-quarter-mile-long riffle that holds few trout worth the anglers time. There is a deep spring hole across the river where it rejoins the road and a nine-pound brown was taken here once upon a time, and there is still a lunker or two in this spot.

So a Capital B or big B in Brown may be referring to a Big Brown

[greg]

The anonymous author of this book, “The Triangle and the Cross”, very persuasively demonstrates that the home of brown is Avoca Spring in Yellowstone. books2read.com/u/mlEE57

He or she also writes of a second solution to the poem, and a new treasure (with photographs).

[annie]

I Have just been thinking lately about the home of Brown. Probably stirred up by all the kerfuffle with the court case just now.
Anyhoo. Remember Forrest saying to look at the bigger picture always stays in my mind. And it got me thinking about watersheds. The MISSOURI is a pretty big river with lots of tributaries some/ many in fact flow through Yellowstone. Some are also very important to endangered species like the pallid sturgeon. Could Forrest have been saying in the poem that the Missouri was the ‘Brown’ being as some nicknames were Big Muddy? And we were to look below the Missouri maybe near Yellowstone? Jefferson, Maddison and Gallatin he knew well are pretty important starting points of the big river.
Also struck a chord that the Chief Ranger was concerned about possible destruction of habitat if visitors to an area increased.

[greg]

The home of Brown is Avoca Spring in Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone National Park.

1. Molly Brown, of Titanic fame, named her summer estate “Avoca” After her favorite poem of the same name by Thomas Moore: “Avoca, the Vale, the Meeting of the Waters” www.bartleby.com/270/2/16.html

2. The poem is about a peaceful valley (vale) where the author wants to be after his death. Do you remember that Forrest Fenn used the word “vale” in the thrill of the chase? In the chapter about tripping over the grave marker of the French soldier in Vietnam?

3. The last two rhyming words in Fenn’s poem are “cease “and “peace”. The last two words in the poem “Avoca“ are “cease” and “peace”!

4. If you draw a line between Avoca Spring (44.485350°N 110.857292°W) in Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone national park, and connect it to the fourth clue (which is northeast), the line goes directly through Secret Valley (Secret Valley is the location where the treasure was hidden).

5. And a couple of tangential hints: remember Forest mentioning “biscuits” (Avoca Springs is in Biscuit Basin) a couple of times in the thrill of the chase?

6. I hope you find this interesting!!

[Jeff]

Hi Annie, I've been away but news of this case has drawn me back in a I-can't-look-away sort of way.

Annie and Greg, all these thoughts are interesting. The Missouri can certainly be found on a good map and/or Google Earth, but I can't immediately place it in TTOTC.

I'll throw out this six degrees of separation idea with some muddled logic (sorry, at this point I'm not sure if I read this somewhere or came up with it on my own):

Young Forrest was bored of class, slid out of his classroom on the fire escape pole, and stained the backside of his pants a "heavy brown color" (Jump-Starting the Learning Curve). Teachers with Ropes, wherein Forrest provides an alternative to his aversion to typical classroom learning, contains a drawing that appropriates part of a Norman Rockwell painting depicting a scene of school integration. This resulted from the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Board of Education >> bored of education. The comparative safety of classroom learning is not for Forrest; he learns by experience, often by getting his butt spanked--which can be painful, frightening, and even downright dangerous. Bessie the cow spanks him and he even lands on a fresh cow pie (brown!). Wear clean underwear in case of an accident (No Place for the Biddies) could signal the same idea (soiling oneself). Gaining experience wasn't always peaceful, he tells us (Preface). Only an experience can teach thoroughly and with a speed that is not always available in the classroom (Epilogue). Literal spanking in Jump-Starting the Learning Curve. Literal spanking also in Surviving Myself (but Skippy didn't learn--did he pay for that failure in his scuba accident?). LoL, Your Hit Parade radio show. Spankings in Epilogue (dad's former student tells Forrest). Spanked in Lewis and Clark: saddle sores. Less overtly spanked in Buffalo Cowboys. Similar less overtly in My War for Me: but his butt was saved (told to get in the rescue chopper and sit on flak vest). We're veering away from brown, but in TTOTC brown reasonably could be tied to these ideas of the comparative danger of experience vs. safety of the classroom. Brown v. Board (bored) of Education. ROFL. His Totem Cafe learning experience is prefaced with potholes splashing dirty water, scalding hot water, deep and white canyons on his hands, brown gravy, smelly gravy; notably includes brown and brown adjacent stuff. Obvious references to the thermal springs of Yellowstone. All this after that chapter In Love with Yellowstone, his time there being overtly contrasted with his time in school. Brown v. Board (bored) of Education. Brown is Yellowstone generally. This is getting ridiculously long, but from these lines of thought and a bunch of others drawing solely from a reading of TTOTC, I have the poem localizing to the region of the Midway Geyser Basin along the Firehole River.

[bdalameda]

Von Behr Brown trout were first introduced into Yellowstone on Nez Perce Creek at or near the confluence with the Firehole River. The name Behr means Bear and also bold and brave. It also has an interesting beginning, Behr is a given name and surname that derives from the German Bär (bear). Older forms of the name, Bela and Belo (related to the old High German Belo).
The word Von means of or from in German.
In the poem it says< "put in below the home of Brown" Sooo, Put in belo(Behr) the home of(Von) Brown. The next line starts out, "from there". The word Von also means from. It is easy to interpret this as meaning that the Von Behr Brown trout were put in there and came from there making it their home.

There is more that points to this area. Sentinel creek and meadows are near here. The term halt has a definite connection to what a sentinel would say when someone approaches.

Another connection that may point to this area. The poem says, "So why is it that I must go and leave my trove for all to seek". So Why = Sow hy= Sow high - A sow is a female pig - high means up - Porc-up - as in Porcupine. He went alone "in there" Porc-up-in-e. Continuing on with that thought - the poem says I must go. So why is it/ that I must go. if you take the letter I out of the first part it says hyst. Sow hy s t. Look up the word hystrix or hystrecomorph. This is a Porcupine. Right at the confluence of Nez Perce creek and the Firehole River are the Porcupine Hills.

I have always felt that Forrest hinted that this chase was about the circle of life and then rebirth. The word hyst as in hyster means womb. Forrest was returning to a place of birth or to be reborn. Everything is new again? He also said I must go - I = Eye - Ojo means eye+ Ojo Cliente - right near there.