I am a graduate of Dunseith High School (Dunseith, North Dakota), and I have taken college classes at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota), and Northeast Community College (Norfolk, Nebraska), and West Texas A&M University (Canyon, Texas). Due to the covid-19 pandemic, I have been on sabbatical from attending college due to underlying medical conditions. At West Texas, since I have been an amateur astronomer since 1979, I took Dr. David W. Craig’s astronomy class. I found Dr. Craig’s lectures to be inspirational, and I decided to revisit my past. This is something I do not often do. In a billion years, the intensity of the energy emanating from the sun will boil the oceans and life will no longer exist on earth. Eventually the sun will become a red giant and consumes the earth. Without considering any parameters other than the life cycle of the sun, it is obvious that, for the human race to survive, we must find a way to get to what is now called an exoplanet. Given that we now know the nearest exoplanet is light years away, the old physics, which includes classical mechanics and relativistic mechanics and quantum mechanics, is wholly inadequate for reaching an exoplanet. In the early 1980s, when the Cold War was still going on, I became involved in a research project for developing a new physics with the purpose of reaching an exoplanet. Back in the early 1980’s, when I was young, I did not realize that when someone asked, “What could possibly go wrong?” the answer is “Everything!” Spies are only interested in one thing: What profits them. This always involves power, money, sex, lies, and death --- it is like being dealt aces and eights.

In the early 2000’s, still (and always) being an amateur astronomer, I turned my attention to something I had always wanted to do: treasure hunting. Although, as a young boy I wanted to hunt sunken Spanish Galleons. But, since I happened to be in Arizona, I decided to investigate the Lost Dutchman [gold] Mine (LDM). In 1992 I met Charles “Chuck” Crawford (aka Chuck “Black Bart” Crawford). He claimed to be a prospect, treasure hunter, and refiner of precious metals. Everyone else claimed he was a conman and a killer.

Crawford claimed he found the LDM in later 1979 and announced it in 1980 in a couple local newspapers. Crawford also claimed the government, through the Forest Service, engaged in a conspiracy and took the LDM away from him in a Kangaroo court called an Evidentiary Hearing. This was the result of the Superstition Mountains being included in a wilderness act, which meant the Superstition Mountains were being closed to mining and treasure hunting, which meant invalidating all the mining claims. That is what the Evidentiary Hearing did to Crawford’s claims, where, according to Crawford, the LDM was located. Nearing the end of his life, having been told by his doctor he had only a few months to live, Crawford decided to give his estate to the Superstition Mountain Historical Society (SMHS), which operates the Superstition Mountain Museum. But Crawford stipulated that a biography about him had to be written and published. The local area writers were contacted by Rick Gwynne (a local area treasure hunter and friend to Crawford), but they all refused to write a biography about Crawford.

To assist the SMHS I offered to do Crawford’s biography as a doc-u-book, a book of documents that told Crawford’s story, and to publish it at Amazon. Crawford accepted and gave his estate to the SMHS. Crawford had over 500 documents with more than 1500 pages. I became the official curator of the Crawford Archive and the official Crawford biographer. I organized the documents chronologically. I read them all, selected the ones I believed told Crawford’s story, made introductory statements for those documents and published them. It turned into a trilogy: The La Barge Treasure Box Conspiracy, The Ones What Done It, and The Deity. I then made a digital copy of the archive and turned the digital and paper versions of the Crawford Archive over to Gregory Davis of the SMHS.

Crawford told me about his treasure code map and the Burns Ranch. He said I could have anything I fond using the treasure code, as a favor for doing his biography. Dwight Turula (a friend and treasure hunter) and I investigated the treasure code and the Burns Ranch. Having heard a story about a Knights Templar connection to the Superstition Mountains, I decided to investigate it, along with investigating other legends of the Superstition Mountains, the Burns Ranch, and the LDM. Several treasure hunters, including Rick Gwynne, became involved, and another trilogy resulted: The Dutchman’s Stash, The Dutchman’s Secret, and The Dutchman’s Revenge.

After an illness, I went to Nebraska, where the rest of my immediate family was living. I ended up having a lifesaving surgery. I am very grateful to all the doctors involved in my health issues while in Arizona and Nebraska. I then returned to school, attending Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska. This led to attending school at West Texas A&M University and attending Dr. Craig’s astronomy class. During my sabbatical, which is still going on, I authored "Falsification of Einstein's relativity" and "Inseparable realities result from the previous falsification of relativity and replacement of spacetime." I also coauthored "Modeling of Gage Discontinuity Dissipative Physics" and "Rethinking special relativity, spacetime, and proposing a discontinuum." As a lifelong amateur astronomer, I specialize in the origin of the universe and the effect that origin has on the universe as it exists today. My favorite people from the past are Hypatia, Bruno, Galileo, Descartes, and Einstein. I owe them, very much --- I see your aces and eights and counter with a royal flush!