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..
Forrestâs character is portrayed as extremely childlike; his mental disability shows him as an innocent child in an adultâs body â Sympathy - âThe film-makers of Forrest Gump chose to portray a character with learning difficulties as a man-child, a loveable fool, an incorruptible âsimpletonââ (Kimpton, A. Gump and Co.