BEALE TREASURE STORY: The Hoax Theory Deflated
The book has 413 pages printed on acid-free paper measuring
8.5 by 11 inches, with a sewn binding. The book presents new evidence to counter the commonly voiced arguments against
the treasure story's validity.
The contents of the book are described as follows:
Chapter Summary (3 pp.)
Background (20 pp.)
Introduction to Ward's pamphlet (12 pp.)
Scanned copy of Ward's pamphlet (28 pp.)
Ch. 1 Early Investigations (6 pp.)
Ch. 2 B2-Like
Cipher Systems (24 pp.)
Ch. 3 Treatises on
Cryptography that Beale Likely Read and Cryptographic Methods Beale Likely Adopted (42 pp.)
Ch. 4 Possible Forms for Beale's Key (12 pp.)
Ch. 5 Beale's Reconstructed Declaration (18 pp.)
Ch. 6 The Search for Beale's Key Book (16 pp.)
Ch. 7 Beale Cipher No. 3 is Long Enough (7 pp.)
Ch. 8 Objective Point Santa Fé (44 pp.)
Ch. 9 Authorship and Revision of Ward's Pamphlet (35 pp.)
Appendices
(112 pp.)
Epilogue (3 pp.)
Index (25 pp.)
