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The "home of Brown," for instance, could be Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado, or Brown Cemetery in Montana, or Brown Hill in New Mexico.
例如，“布朗之家”可以是科羅拉多州的布朗峽谷國家紀念碑，或蒙大拿的布朗公墓，或新墨西哥州的布朗山。
Or a cabin or a bear. Maybe it's the color brown. Or maybe the treasure is hidden under some porta-potties.
或者一個小屋，或者一只熊。或許它指的是棕色。或者寶藏藏在某些移動廁所下面。
(Don't laugh; several people have already looked.) The treasure has attracted an eclectic bunch of hunters,
（別笑，有些人已經去那里找過了。）寶藏已經吸引了形形色色的獵人，
including "Tim Nobody," who collects pinball machines; a one-legged motorcycle rider named Michael Hendrickson; and a Connecticut woman everybody calls Grandma.
包括收集彈球機的“蒂姆·小卒”，一位叫邁克爾·亨德里克森的獨腿摩托車騎手，還有一位人人稱她為奶奶的康涅狄格女人。
Dal Neitzel, 72, manages a community cable TV station in Bellingham, Washington, and has taken about 70 road trips in search of the treasure.
72歲的達爾·雷特澤爾管理著華盛頓貝靈漢姆的一家有線電視臺，他已經進行了大約70次的自駕游來尋找寶藏。
He runs a blog named the Thrill of the Chase that has become an online hub for hunters to post theories about where Fenn might have stashed all that gold.
他開了一個名為“追逐的刺激”的博客，該博客已成為一個在線中心，獵人可以在這里發布關于芬恩可能把所有的寶藏藏在哪里的理論。
He gets thousands of visitors a day. Marti Kreis from Blue Ridge, Georgia—better known by her handle, Diggin' Gypsy—searches an average of seven times a year, for weeks at a time.
他的博客每天有數以千計的訪客。來自藍嶺的馬丁·克萊斯-更為人熟知的是她的別名“發掘吉普賽”-平均每年探索7次，每次探索數周。
The 49-year-old grandmother is usually joined by her extended family and, room permitting, a pet rooster named John Wayne.
這個49歲的祖母通常會和她的大家庭一起探索，如果房間允許，還會有一只名叫約翰·韋恩的寵物公雞。
She searches only in West Yellowstone, Montana, no longer bothering with Wyoming, Colorado, or New Mexico, the other three mountain states where the treasure might be hidden.
她只在蒙大拿的黃石公園西部搜尋，不再去懷俄明州，科羅拉多州或墨西哥州探尋，寶藏也有可能藏在這三個山州。
She says it's because Fenn once blogged about her, claiming, "If I were a betting man I'd bet on this woman."
她說，這是因為芬恩曾在博客上提到過她，“如果我是個賭徒的話，我會賭這個女人會找到寶藏。”
That was enough for Kreis to think she was on the right track. She's hardly the only optimist.
這就足夠使克萊斯認為她走在了正確的道路上。她不是唯一的樂觀主義者。
The truly devoted meet in June for an annual gathering in New Mexico called Fennboree.
六月在新墨西哥州的年度集會是一次真正的專門集會，集會名為芬恩寶藏會。
Since 2014, when only ten people attended, it has grown to become a hot ticket, with hundreds mingling around campfires and sharing stories.
自2014年只有10人參加以來，它已經成為一個熱門事件，數百人圍在篝火旁分享故事。
With so much at stake, there are also rivalries and infighting.
尋寶是件牽扯太多利益的事情，有很多的競爭和混戰。
Some people claim that the treasure never existed— "Fenn should be arrested for scamming,"
有些人聲稱這些寶藏根本不存在，一位當地人曾經向新墨西哥圣菲市抱怨“芬恩應該因為詐騙而被捕，”
a local once grumbled to the Santa Fe New Mexican—or that it was discovered long ago and never reported.
或者它很久前就被發現了，但是卻沒有被報道。
Some frightening people have come out of the woodwork in search of the valuable cache.
一些可怕的人突然冒出來尋找這些珍貴的寶藏。
A Nevada man pleaded guilty to stalking after he became convinced that the treasure was actually Fenn's granddaughter.
一名內華達州男子承認，在他確信寶藏實際上是芬恩的孫女后，他曾跟蹤過芬恩。
Another searcher, a Pennsylvania man who was certain that it was hidden in Fenn's home, was arrested after he used an ax to break in.
另一名搜尋者是賓夕法尼亞州的一名男子，他確信寶藏藏在芬恩的家中。他在用斧頭破門而入后被捕。
And Fenn write to one overeager sleuth, "please don't dig up my parents' graves."
芬恩給過于熱切的偵探寫信，“請不要挖我父母的墳墓。”
