With the recent discovery of an old diary belonging to a young girl captured by Ho-Chunk Indians in 1827, retired postmaster Frank Meadows, his grandson Parker, and a group of professional Wisconsin researchers set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of a party of U.S. Army personnel, lost somewhere in the Great American Northwest Territory. According to the diary, a payroll chest of early American silver coinage may be buried somewhere near Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago. Can this treasure actually be located after nearly two hundred years? And if so, what unique secret lies buried within its contents?