W. Craig Gaines is the author of Hispanic 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 Treasures; California Treasure and Treasure Tales; Great Lost Treasure Never Found; Lost Oklahoma Treasure; 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 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 and his wife, Arla, live in Tulsa, Oklahoma.