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Book Synopsis The Lost San Saba Mines by : Charley F. Eckhardt
Download or read book The Lost San Saba Mines written by Charley F. Eckhardt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one man's true-life adventure--through archives and foothills--as he unravels the legend and the myth that have long hidden the truth about the mysterious mine.
Book Synopsis The Lost Mines of the San Saba by : Laurence Hamrick
Download or read book The Lost Mines of the San Saba written by Laurence Hamrick and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The San Saba Treasure, Legends of Silver Creek by : David Lewis
Download or read book The San Saba Treasure, Legends of Silver Creek written by David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins in 1757 when Spain established a fort and a mission in the area. It was later claimed that the Spaniards discovered a rich mine and hid a room full of silver bars in a mine before being massacred by Indians. In 1831 Jim Bowie looked for the silver and found a battle with Indians instead. In 1868 an expedition from San Marcos located the supposed mine but were unable to excavate the shaft that held millions of dollars of silver bars. In the 1900's some of the most unique characters Texas ever created devoted their lives to the project. There was Julius Norton, a railroad engineer turned prominent San Antonio attorney who spent the last 13 years of his life living at the mine, only to die alone at the site under mysterious circumstances. There was Martha "Wenonah" Learn, a vaudeville dancer, a friend of Harry Houdini, who left the stage to run a business in San Antonio to then turn up at the mine and live there for the rest of her days. The last person to search the mine died in 1990. The treasure may have never existed but the history of the area and all of the unique people involved is the treasure. A massacre, two murders, a suspicious death, the inventor of the modern shrimp industry, Jim Bowie, fortunes lost, a lady immune to rattlesnakes, events that changed the course of history, the Texas Folklorist J. Frank Dobie, San Antonio con men, and an unmarked grave. It is all there.
Book Synopsis The San Saba Treasure by : David C. Lewis
Download or read book The San Saba Treasure written by David C. Lewis and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, four treasure hunters from San Marcos, Texas, searched for a lost mine on the San Saba River, near today’s Menard. It was popularized as folklore in J. Frank Dobie’s treasure legend classic Coronado’s Children. One hundred and fifty years later, a descendant of one of those four men set out to discover the history behind the legend. This book recounts that search, from the founding of the ill-fated 1757 mission on the San Saba River up to the last attempt, in 1990, to find the treasure in this particular legend. It describes Jim Bowie, a fake treasure map industry, murder trials, a rattlesnake dancer, fortunes lost, a very long Texas cave, and surprising twists to the story popularized by Dobie. The book will not lead anyone to the legendary ten-thousand pounds of silver, but it will open a treasure trove of Texas history and the unique characters who hunted the fabulous riches.
Book Synopsis O. Henry and the Lost San Saba Mine by : Mike Cox
Download or read book O. Henry and the Lost San Saba Mine written by Mike Cox and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buried Treasures of Texas by : W. C. Jameson
Download or read book Buried Treasures of Texas written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects legends of buried treasure in Texas, including the gold of Haystack Mountain, a missing Incan hoard, and the Deer Island shipwrecks
Book Synopsis Legends of Texas by : James Frank Dobie
Download or read book Legends of Texas written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V2 : Pirates' Gold and Other Tales.
Book Synopsis Coronado's Children by : James Frank Dobie
Download or read book Coronado's Children written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Springs of Texas by : Gunnar M. Brune
Download or read book Springs of Texas written by Gunnar M. Brune and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Book Synopsis The Diamond Hunters by : Wilbur Smith
Download or read book The Diamond Hunters written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed thriller of family, business and betrayal - perfect for fans of Succession - by global sensation Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror Some people will never have enough . . . Johnny Lance was taken in by the Van Der Byls when he was an orphaned boy, and his life has been dedicated to making his adoptive father proud. But his efforts have been in vain, his father loathes him and, in his dying breath, makes one final demand of his biological son, the jealous and vengeful Benedict: to destroy his half-brother. When Johnny is tricked by Benedict into losing his entire fortune to the Van Der Byls company, he becomes a laughingstock. Benedict's sister, the smart and beautiful Tracey, loves Johnny and buys him a concession in the diamond rich seabeds of the South-West African Coast. But the obsessive Benedict has been shaped at his father's hand and will do anything to finish what he started. Even if it means destroying everything . . .
Book Synopsis The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The San Saba Treasure by : David Lewis
Download or read book The San Saba Treasure written by David Lewis and published by Texas Folklore Society Extra B. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book relates the folklore surrounding the legendary, and nonexistent, San Saba Mines on the San Saba River in Texas"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Hungry as the Sea written by Wilbur Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1978.
Download or read book Gold Mine written by Wilbur Smith and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself...
Book Synopsis Trammel's Trace by : Gary L. Pinkerton
Download or read book Trammel's Trace written by Gary L. Pinkerton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas. Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected with El Camino Real de los Tejas in Nacogdoches. By the early nineteenth century, Trammel’s Trace was largely a smuggler’s trail that delivered horses and contraband into the region. It was a microcosm of the migration, lawlessness, and conflict that defined the period. By the 1820s, as Mexico gained independence from Spain, smuggling declined as Anglo immigration became the primary use of the trail. Familiar names such as Sam Houston, David Crockett, and James Bowie joined throngs of immigrants making passage along Trammel’s Trace. Indeed, Nicholas Trammell opened trading posts on the Red River and near Nacogdoches, hoping to claim a piece of Austin’s new colony. Austin denied Trammell’s entry, however, fearing his poor reputation would usher in a new wave of smuggling and lawlessness. By 1826, Trammell was pushed out of Texas altogether and retreated back to Arkansas Even so, as author Gary L. Pinkerton concludes, Trammell was “more opportunist than outlaw and made the most of disorder.”
Download or read book Wild Justice written by Wilbur Smith and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure--codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks. His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He's used to doing battle--and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph's victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride's every move--down to what could be his last one...
Book Synopsis The Dark of the Sun by : Wilbur Smith
Download or read book The Dark of the Sun written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed thriller by global sensation, Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror The highest prize comes at the highest price... Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission: to lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. But events quickly take a turn for the worse as it becomes clear that the town's diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission. And where there is treasure, danger always seems to follow. It isn't long before Curry finds something even more valuable than diamonds in the town. Something he'll do anything to protect. And soon he discovers that his most deadly enemies might be those closest to him . . .
