Cody Drake is a native Texan and Professional Treasure Hunter. In 1993, his father got a business promotion, and moved to Gilbert, Arizona from Houston, Texas. When they arrived in Arizona, his father became religiously involved with gold prospecting and Cody prospected in every mountain range in Arizona multiple times. From an early age, he was exploring the Arizona desert. He had a gun on his hip, and while his dad was dry washing or dredging, he would just go off exploring alone. Cody doesn't know how his dad trusted him, but he did. Whenever he was out exploring, he would find Native American ruins, old miners cabins, and old homesteads. 

Cody would find these great, boulders that had petroglyphs on them. He would write down the petroglyphs and then go home and go through his books and try to figure out what they meant. As his researching skills developed, he began to discover that some of those petroglyphs were actually Spanish. Cody found Spanish encampments, mines, and their trailheads marked by carvings on rocks. In the early two thousands, he found a site that was a Spanish encampment where he recovered over a thousand gold, silver, and copper coins from the 1700s.