Victorio Peak, which lies east of the Jornada del Muerto, an ancient road in southern New Mexico known as the journey of death, has become the benchmark of an unbroken chain of events that has lasted for more than four hundred years.

Indistinguishable as Victorio Peak is from other hills in the San Andres Mountain Range, so too are the outrageous string of occurrences that left their footprints on the doorstep of the Twentieth Century. Accounts of these happenings are a matter of public record, but the crimes that occurred there have escaped public scrutiny. As a consequence, the final chapter of American history, as it relates to this obscure corner of the great American Southwest, has never been told—until now. The Noss treasure was a windfall to select individuals who helped themselves to the gold. The subterranean storehouse of gold constituted a never-ending payday for those who plundered it. These illegal actions were usually cloaked under the devices of “Classified” or “Top-Secret” operations. Elaborate plans to loot the Noss treasure trove involved at least one CIA operative, shadowy individuals within the Treasury Department, a number of commanding generals at White Sands Missile Range and high-ranking subordinate officers—and at least two United States Presidents. The thefts were barely investigated; worse yet, when the Army was exposed, as it was during Nixon’s presidency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the commanding general at White Sands Missile Range covered up the thefts in a phony military inquiry conducted in 1974.

 

Because of the secrecy that blanketed the thefts of gold from the Noss treasure at Victorio Peak, the criminal activity set in motion soon after WWII at White Sands have escaped close examination. With the approval and help of certain commanding generals at White Sands and the agencies that enabled them, a sinister cabal was formed and a fantastic conspiracy of wanton crimes was hatched. In addition to the many thefts from the Noss treasure by the military and the destruction of a large quantity of New Mexico’s priceless antiquities, is the strong possibility that a certain amount of gold and priceless art that once belonged to the people of Europe was also secreted somewhere on the White Sands Missile Range, a possibility that stems from the fact that a large cache of gold taken by Hitler’s forces during WWII was secreted in the Bavarian Alps and other locations throughout Germany. Rumors persist to this day that much of this gold was covertly brought to the United States where it was hidden and that one of its hiding places was alleged to be White Sands Missile Range, stored there for safekeeping. It is also rumored that some of the Nazi gold was stored in caves near or next to the ancient treasure trove found by Doc and Ova Noss—the perfect cover. The question whether or not Nazi gold was in fact brought to America and secreted at White Sands is for the reader to decide, but the existence of an ancient treasure discovered inside Victorio Peak by Doc and Ova Noss is irrefutable. The questions raised about Nazi gold and White Sands Missile Range are but a small episode in the Victorio Peak treasure story, yet it is an important one from a historical perspective. Finding it difficult to believe that in the fog of war and by greed of men, Nazi gold hadn’t found its way to White Sands Missile Range; too much innuendo and rumors abound that causes one to consider such a possibility. Not only is it a historical fact that American army officers were dealing in black market items of gold coins and bullion after WWII had ended in Europe, but they also dealt in countless valuable personal effects stolen from Holocaust victims by Hitler.

The three books of The Gold House tell the story of unchecked greed, theft and the unlawful military intercession and manipulation of civil matters, actions and activities that suppress the liberty, freedom and constitutional rights of every American. The numerous crimes that the Noss treasure trove set in motion were so blatant that it is difficult to believe that such events had ever taken place. But they did. Through the deliberate misuse of wealth and power in the hands of many conspirators, the course of American history was in fact altered. The crime scene was Victorio Peak, the victims include the Noss family members, but because of the constitutional issues and questions connected to the thefts, every citizen in the United States as well.

The first book in the trilogy, The Gold House – The Discovery, tells the story of the discovery and the events that surrounded the lives of Doc and Ova Noss, Doc’s murder, the trial that followed, and Ova’s two-decade struggle with the military to secure the treasure. It also gives the account of how Ova Noss was driven from her claim site marking the beginning of events that led to the theft of the treasure by the military.