Clue 5 The Blaze

The answer to Clue 5: The Blaze.

Three of Forrest's clues are based on cartoon characters who have associations with the 'wild west'.  Take a look at the paragraphs below.

Forrest mentions the novel The Last of the Mohicans many times in his videos particularly in the two bookshop videos where he draws our attention to this book and notes that ‘illustrations speak louder than words’.

The novel  The Last of the Mohicans  mentions a blaze on the torso of one of the characters in the book.   The Marvel Books illustrated version of The Last of the Mohicans shows a picture of this  blaze - a vivid blue tattoo in the shape of a turtle / tortoise.




The Blaze



I believe the blaze referenced by Forrest in his poem is the tattoo on the chest of the character ‘Uncas’ in this book.

Forrest has mentioned turquoise a lot in articles / videos and in one video mentioned earrings with 'turquoise turtle' figurines.

In the Searcher blogs (Forrest’s Scrapbooks e.g. Scrapbook 104) Forrest used the word ‘emblazoned’ a number of times in his posts and articles.  This is how the blaze is mentioned in the book The Last of the Mohicans;  ‘The turtle tattoo was emblazoned on the chest of Uncas.’

Forrest used the word emblazoned somewhat out of context to describe designs formed as part of a metal casting process, for example:

In an article for California On Sunday he was quoted as saying:  ‘----- words emblazoned upon some of the brass bells’ 

In an item for MRC TV he was quoted as saying ‘----- 265 coins emblazoned with American eagles and double eagles’

The book Exploration of New Mexico by Espejo detailed by Forrest in his Book Collecting video describes a Province called ‘Maguas’ and a tribe of Native Americans called ‘Mohoce’.  Again, these references direct Searchers to look at the book  The Last of the Mohicans.

Similarly, in the same video Forrest highlighted  the poem Idylls of a king by Tennison.  This poem mentions ‘Hawkeye’, another character from the book The Last of the Mohicans.

Forrest stated that the 'Blaze' does not face North, East, South or West.  This is because the Blaze is shown on a page within a book.  It is not a geographical object.

I believe the answer to this clue is ‘Turquoise Turtle’.



Solved clues from the Forrest Fenn poem highlighted on this blog.

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Forrest's Scrapbooks are shown on Dal Neitzel's site:

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http://dalneitzel.com/2013/03/17/media-coverage/