Hid Gold in Buggy - William McIlroy, one of the
first bankers at Fayetteville, left $30,000 in gold hidden under the
seat of a broken-down buggy on a mountain road in the Boston range
in northwest Arkansas for nearly ten days before he returned to get
it. He was moving it from his store in town to his brother's
farm at the outbreak of the Civil War when occupation of
Fayetteville by Federal troops was imminent.
