The book told the story of Amanda, a young girl whose father and horse both mysteriously disappear, and she travels the country looking for them. “Treasure” was published by IntraVision in 1984, a few years after Kit Williams’ “Masquerade” was a runaway success in England, and it was supposed to be the American version of Kit William’s armchair treasure hunt. I continue to read the book and jot down notes, full of excitement and wonder and hope. Somewhere, at that very moment, there is a golden horse in the ground, and everything I need to find it is in my hands. As I work on the puzzle, my mind is elsewhere, far from the sleet and snow.

Somewhere in the United States, a golden horse is buried, and inside the belly of the horse is a key to a safe deposit box containing $500,000. I am 14 years old and I am sitting on my bed with a pencil, a notebook, and the book “Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse”. The storm outside is blowing sleet and freezing rain against my window, but I barely hear it. However, I will still give the book to my son, so that I can inspire him to search for back yard yetis, toadstool fairies, loch ness monsters and all the other treasures that make this world a rich place to live.The Armchair Treasure Hunt: Treasure: In Search of the Golden By MW Team Writer Kurt Konecnyĭecember, 1984. I googled to see if the treasure was unclaimed, and sadly was unearthed when I was four. The “treasures” I have wanted during my lifetime have changed many times, but there is something universally appealing about the search. That is the sign of a good story: it lingers in your imagination decades later. Even twenty years later I still get a rush of excitement when I think about the book. My sister and I stared for hours at that book, dreaming about how it would feel to unearth a massive treasure.

(I’m not sure if he dug up holes for all the wrong guesses! :) If you solved the riddle and mailed him a letter, he would dig it up for you. Even though I wasn’t in England, I could still participate. It was full of elaborate pictures littered with carefully designed clues that would lead you to real treasure he buried in England. When I was about ten I read a book called Masquerade that was written and illustrated by Kit Williams.

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