But he'd become just one more treasure hunter by the time he got here.
They failed, as have other treasure hunters before and since.
By the very nature of their work, treasure hunters are an independent lot.
Here he didn't wonder whether some treasure hunter had been before him.
And while the treasure hunters knew little about the value of their find, others would know plenty.
The treasure hunter needs to look, and that is always the way things lost forever get found.
The city got calls from treasure hunters, and officials soon learned of the contest.
His grave was found 9 years later in 1954 by treasure hunters.
The old ones were destroyed by treasure hunters almost two decades ago.
Nor was he, in the ordinary sense, a treasure hunter.
