The Lyman brothers were outlaws. When they started their careers, Walter was the oldest Lyman and he got to be the leader, but there was more to the leadership than age. When he was still very young, Walter showed himself to be without remorse or conscience or fear. Walter was bad, like some of the old west murderers whose crimes have been trivialized and romanticized by makers of movies about horses and the thugs who rode them. I've been asked not to reveal the location of the Lyman place, or the real names of a few of the towns. I agreed with the request, so if you can't find a town or county on the map, then I've kept my promise. And once I renamed a person or place, this book could no longer be called non-fiction, which it was supposed to be. I get it. If it's not factual, it's fiction. But everything honestly did happen. The people with new names are real. The gold is real. The hiding place is real. If you want it, it's yours but you'll have to work for it. It's real. This story is true.
