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..
Nathan Bedford Forrest, (born July 13, 1821, near Chapel Hill, Tennessee, U.S.âdied October 29, 1877, Memphis, Tennessee), Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War (1861â65) who was often described as a âborn military genius.â His rule of action, âGet there first with the most men,â became one of the most often quoted statements of ...