Byars, Oklahoma. Byars is a town in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 255 at the 2010 census.
The man behind the treasure is Forrest Fenn, an 85-year-old millionaire, former Vietnam fighter pilot, self-taught archaeologist, and successful art dealer in Santa Fe, N.M. No one knows where that treasure chest is but me, Fenn says. If I die tomorrow, the knowledge of that location goes in the coffin with me..
The author of the poem was an elderly Texan art dealer named Forrest Fenn. An inveterate raconteur with an infectious chuckle, Fenn was a familiar face in Santa Fe, where heâd lived with his wife, Peggy, since the Seventies.