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Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990525905
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend written by W. C. Jameson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-fiction collection of 22 tales and legends of the Big Bend region of West Texas includes maps and illustrations. 6x9 inch Trade Paper, 240 pages on 60# stock offset white, glossy 12 pt cover designed with 4.5 gatefold flaps.The Big Bend of Texas is at once compelling and mysterious. It has been described as a rich and varied land of history, myth and legend, danger, ghost, rugged landscapes, aridity, remoteness, spectacular vistas, and wildlife that either bite, sting, or clawed. Located in the "Far West" geographic region of Texas - a subdivision of West Texas, and running along the border with Mexico, north of the prominent northward bend in the Rio Grande passing through the gap between the Chisos Mountains in Texas and the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico, hanging south of U.S. Highway 90 and west of the Pecos River. Townships in the region include Alpine, Presidio, Marfa, Sanderson, and Marathon.The Big Bend is part of the Chihuahuan Desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, the second largest desert in North American. The area is sparsely populated, arid, and rugged, containing the Chisos and the Davis Mountain ranges, the region has more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of public lands, including Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park along the north side of the Rio Grande. It is also the home of the McDonald Observatory. The Big Bend has been visited or settled by Indians, Spanish Explorers, Mexicans, Anglo Ranchers, outlaws of every stripe, and the United States Military, Each of these cultures has left a legacy in this fascinating country, and much of it has to do with the wealth associated with lost mines and buried treasures. The twenty-two tales included in this book are spellbinding accounts of some of the most exciting and mysterious lost treasures to be found in North America, represent many millions of dollars worth of gold, silver, jewels, coin, and currency that are still searched for today.

Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the West

Author : Thomas Probert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the West written by Thomas Probert and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This large, easy-to-use volume lists the works of more than eleven hundred different authors, covering thousands of stories of lost mines and buried treasures supposedly located in fifteen Western and Southwestern states and in Mexico. In addition to being a boon to those adventurers who are tempted to search for lost mines and buried treasures, it will be an important basic research tool for historians, geologists, geographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and folklorists, and it will be useful in identifying the man treasure hoards and mining claims all the way from the Lost Adams Diggings in Arizona to the Stagecoach in Wyoming. The information given in this important bibliography was acquired through perusal of an unusually large number of books, newspapers, magazines, unpublished manuscripts, deposits in private and public libraries, holdings of various historical foundations, and governmental records and archives. The task took Mr. Probert three full years of steady, patient work. Many of these stories of lost mines and buried treasures have resulted in the discovery of some that are rarely acknowledged, largely because, as Mr. Probert points out, "those who have been so fortunate as to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow have deemed it wiser and much safer to keep their own counsel" -- Book jacket.

Buried Treasures of Texas

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874831788
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)

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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

Treasure Hunter

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589799933
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Hunter written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods, been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with rattlesnakes, water moccasins, scorpions, and poisonous centipedes. He has fled for his life from park rangers, policemen, landowners, competitors, corporate mercenaries, and drug runners. He has also discovered enough treasure to pay for his own house and finance his and his children’s education. With his enigmatic treasure-hunter partners, Slade, Stanley, and Poet, Jameson's stories are worthy of an Indiana Jones film—except that they are all true.

The Lost Canyon of Gold

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493031155
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Canyon of Gold written by W.C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Search for Lost Treasure First popularized by folklorist and author J. Frank Dobie in his book Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver in 1928, the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings is one of the most mythologized tales of lost treasure on the continent. In the 1860s, Gold was taken from Adams’ canyon in enormous quantities, with nuggets ranging from dust-size to some as large as hen’s eggs, all being plucked from the bottom of a shallow stream. This true story of the Lost Adams Diggings starts with the discovery of the rich deposit of gold in a remote mountain range, and ends with the author’s own story of search and discovery in the twentieth century.

Big Bend Country

Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890968116
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Big Bend Country written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale?s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country.? ?Dallas Morning News ?If you?ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale?s new book will make you want to go there.??Austin American-Statesman.

Treasure Anthology; Stories of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures ...

Author : E. S. LeGaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Anthology; Stories of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures ... written by E. S. LeGaye and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hide, Horn, Fish, and Fowl

Author : Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574413201
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Hide, Horn, Fish, and Fowl written by Kenneth L. Untiedt and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how sophisticated or technologically advanced we become, there is still something within that beckons us to "the hunt." This desire creates the customs, beliefs, and rituals related to hunting--for deer, hogs, as well as fish and snakes, etc. These rituals and customs lead to some of our most treasured folklore.

Buried Treasures of the American Southwest

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874830828
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of the American Southwest written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects legends and lore of buried treasure in the American Southwest, with maps showing locations

Western Treasures Notebook of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure

Author : Jack Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Treasures Notebook of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure written by Jack Black and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826344135
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona written by W. C. Jameson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospecting past of Arizona has been kept alive through the notorious tales included here.

The Big Bend

Author : Tyler
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967065
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bend written by Tyler and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long needed account of the human invasion of this rugged Texas desert land.

Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder

Author : W. Craig Gaines
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467151548
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder written by W. Craig Gaines and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Track pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas. Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State. The history of the coast is cluttered with shipwrecks like that of the 1554 Spanish fleet. Even when pirates such as Jean Laffite managed to get their ill-gotten gains ashore, their loot vanished just as completely as if it had sunk beneath the waves. Entire mines, including the ventures of Jim Bowie and San Saba Presidio, have been reclaimed by the earth. The unmarked caches of bandits like Jesse James and Pancho Villa still bedevil the dreams of treasure seekers today. W. Craig Gaines reveals what has been lost, what has been found and what remains to be recovered.

Legends of Texas

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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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.

Coronado's Children

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789408
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Coronado's Children written by J. Frank Dobie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Dig Here!

Author : Thomas Penfield
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931882354
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Dig Here! written by Thomas Penfield and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874832723
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 32 tales from the area containing the backbone of America include The Gold Behind the Waterfall (Arizona), The Treasure of Deadman Cave (Colorado), Lava Cave Cache (Idaho), Henry Plummer's Lost Gold (Montana), The Curse of the Lost Sheepherder's Mine (Nevada), Lost Train Robbery Loot in Cibola County (New Mexico), Eighty Ingots in Spanish Gold (Utah), and Lost Ledge of Gold (Wyoming). As Jameson points out in his introduction, the Rocky Mountains still have many remote areas, ....