Lost Mines And Buried Treasures Of Arizona

by Jameson, W. C.

• ISBN13: 9780826344137
• ISBN10: 0826344135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-16
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Gold and silver bars discovered in Huachuca Canyon by a soldier stationed at nearby Fort Huachuca just before World War II remain inaccessible despite years of laborious attempts at recovery. Outside the town of Yucca, bandits eager to make a fast getaway buried a strongbox filled with gold, unaware they wouldn't survive the pursuit of a law-enforcing posse to recover their plunder. And somewhere in the Little Horn Mountains northeast of Yuma lies an elusive wash containing hundreds of odd gold-filled rocks. Selected from hundreds of tales passed down from generation to generation since the days of the gold-seeking Spanish explorers, the tales included here are among the most compelling that Arizona has to offer.

Author Biography

W.C. Jameson is the author of sixty books, has acted in five films, and appears regularly on television. When not writing, he performs his music around the country at folk festivals, concert halls, and roadhouses. His publications include Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains and Hot Coffee and Cold Truth: Living and Writing the West (both, UNM Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Northwest
The Ranch Hand's Secret Gold Mine	p. 9
Waterfall Gold	p. 12
Zuni Gold	p. 18
Geronimo's Gold	p. 25
The Lost Oatman Treasure	p. 29
Wagon Road Gold Cache	p. 32
Lost Stagecoach Loot	p. 34
Northeast
De Espejo's Lost Canyon of Gold	p. 39
Lost Monument Valley Silver Mine	p. 45
The Lost Silver Creek Mine	p. 49
Coconino County's Lost Gold Ingots	p. 55
Southeast
The Lost Dutchman Gold of the Superstition Mountains	p. 67
Doc Thorne's Lost Gold Mine	p. 74
The Huachuca Canyon Treasure	p. 79
Vekol's Buried Silver Ingots	p. 86
Skeleton Canyon Treasure	p. 94
The Lost Iron Door Mine	p. 102
Silver Mountain	p. 108
Spanish Padres' Lost Gold Cache	p. 111
Burt Alvord's Gold	p. 118
Lost Arroyo Gold	p. 124
Hidden Gold in Colossal Cave	p. 128
The Lost Adams Placer	p. 132
Southwest
Private Flannigan's Lost Gold	p. 145
Scalp Hunter's Gold	p. 150
Lost Gold in the Little Horn Mountains	p. 156
Lost Gold of Tule Tank	p. 161
Estrella Mountain Gold	p. 165
The Lost Gold of the Chocolate Mountains	p. 170
Black Mesa Gold Placer	p. 175
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