Buried Treasures of the American Southwest

Buried Treasures of the American Southwest

Author: W. C. Jameson

Publisher: Turtleback

Published: 1989-04-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780613908559

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The search continues even today. Modern-day counterparts of the Spanish conquistadors and the early 19th-century settlers still cling to the image of El Dorado. Searchers still arrive with little more than their dreams and hopes for the elusive riches.


Southwest Traveler - Lost Mines and Buried Treasure

Southwest Traveler - Lost Mines and Buried Treasure

Author: Edward Rochette

Publisher: American Traveler Press

Published: 1992-10-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781558381308

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Throughout the Southwest, stories of hidden, lost, stolen, and unreachable gold and other treasures fill curious minds. But where are they? And what exactly did happen? This book not only tells the tales, it includes a map to show the way.


Dig Here!

Dig Here!

Author: Thomas Penfield

Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781931882354

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The most amazing treasure book ever written, giving the locations of well over 100 fabulous fortunes waiting to be found in the ore-rich Southwest. Thomas Penfield has done years of exhaustive research for Dig Here! and has accomplished the Herculean task of separating fact from fiction. For the first time lost treasure stories of the Southwest are stripped bare of their legends and lies. Each treasure account is preceded by the approximate location, estimated total value - and authentication. Reading sources for each account are also included so you can do additional research on the intriguing stories of these treasures. Dig Here! is overflowing with lore, spellbinding backgrounds, driving Western drama - and exciting, reliable facts.


Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest

Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest

Author: Eugene L. Conrotto

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0486142051

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Handy guide to long-lost mines, rich veins of ore, silver lodes, buried treasure, other bonanzas awaiting discovery. Descriptions of each treasure, general locale, maps, more. 96 maps, over 50 other illustrations.


Coronado's Children

Coronado's Children

Author: J. Frank Dobie

Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0292749244

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“This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas.” —Basic Texas Books Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. “These people,” Dobie writes in his introduction, “no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado’s inheritors . . . I have called them Coronado’s children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load . . .” This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses. “As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays.” —The New York Times “Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night.” —Chicago Evening Post


Lost Treasures of American History

Lost Treasures of American History

Author: W. C. Jameson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1589792890

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With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.


Searching for Arizona's Buried Treasures

Searching for Arizona's Buried Treasures

Author: Ron Quinn

Publisher: BZB Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1939050405

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Searching for hidden treasures in the Tubac and Tumacocori mountains, few have ever heard of, we discovered places that have never been visited by others to this day. The four of us finally unearthed a medium-size buried treasure south of Tucson, Arizona, which consisted of 82 pounds of Spanish gold bullion.


The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures

The Silver Madonna and Other Tales of America's Greatest Lost Treasures

Author: W.C. Jameson

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1589798406

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The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the “Madonna”) and a cache of gold, silver, and jewelry that was rumored to also contain the first Bible in America to seventeen tons of gold—its value equal to the treasury of a mid-sized nation—buried somewhere in northwestern New Mexico. What makes these tales even more compelling is that none of these known-to-be-lost treasures have been discovered, although modern detecting technology has made them eminently discoverable.