In Search Of A Legend

Well heres the local legend of my area I have been researching, Its kind of a neat story thought i'd share it. The story begins in the late 1800 in the ozark mountains ,where lived a mountain man named John(last name left out because relatives still live in my town)Through a series of events he came to have trouble with some african american folks that lived in a near by town. One day while in town John got into a argument with one of the people and killed him in the middle of main street with everybody there to see. With the law now on his tail he fled U.S to alberta Canada where he squated on a piece of land just outside of my home town on the athabasca river. A U.S marshall named pete never stopped following John wanting to return him to the states.Pete eventually caught john and killed him in a scuffel never returning to USA. Pete built a cabin and lived out his days there until he was found dead of a heart attack at his table. This is where the story gets interesting, pete was known to have paid for everything in town with gold that he mined from the athabasca river it was also said that he carried a gold nugget the size of his fist and two side arm guns from his days as a marshell. when they found him dead he was missing one of his guns and the gold nugget, the rest of the story confirmed by his surviving dauhter is that he knew he was going to die and before he did he hid his gold then set his gun up to shoot who ever finds it. Thats it, neat hey. come summer I plan on metal detecting for the gun starting by the rings left by his cabin I can't wait. Sorry for the long post