W. Craig Gaines is the author of Great Lost Treasure Never Found; Hispanic Lost Treasure of the Eastern United States; Hispanic Treasures of the Western United States; The Confederate Cherokees; John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles; Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks; Civil War Gold and Other Lost Treasure; Civil War Gold and Other Lost Treasure (revised edition); Success in Life: 401 Encouraging Thoughts; Nostradamus' Curse; and other books and articles. Craig has been interested in lost treasure since seeing the film "Treasure Island" when he was very young. He has written about one hundred published lost treasure stories for a variety of treasure-hunting magazines over the years. Craig is an engineer, geologist and writer who has been in many of the areas mentioned in this work. He resides with his wife, Arla, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and still searches for lost treasure.