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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292703813

ISBN-139780292703810

eBay Product ID (ePID)115974

Product Key Features

Book TitleApache Gold and Yaqui Silver

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicLatin America / Mexico, United States / State & Local / General, Special Interest / Adventure, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Folklore & Mythology

IllustratorYes

FeaturesReprint

GenreTravel, Social Science, History

AuthorJ. Frank Dobie

Book SeriesThe J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Decimal917.9

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of ContentIntroductory: The Trail of a Story Hunter The Lost Adams Diggings I. Enough Gold to Load a Pack Horse II. "The Apaches Made Me Forget" III. The Man Who Was Not Dead IV. The German V. The Man Who Knows VI. Where the Gleam Led Captain Cooney VII. Hounded Hunters VIII. The Malpais and Some Maybes IX. The Indian's Secret Sierra Madre and Bronze Guards The Lost Tayopa Mine I. Camino Real of Silver Pack Trains II. Eight Days Towards the Sunset III. Under the Mesa of the Bell-Maker IV. "Tayopa Is Here" V. "Can You Read Shadder Writing?" Scalp Hunters' Ledge El Naranjal Pedro Loco Not the Will of God General Mexhuira's Ghost Appendix I. Where I Dug for Adams Gold II. A Note on Scalp Hunters in Mexico

SynopsisBuried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold fever, and the lucky few who saw the riches and lived to tell of them spent the rest of their lives searching, haunted by faulty memories, changed landscapes, and quirks of fate. It is the stories of these men and the wealth they pursued that J. Frank Dobie tells in Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. In this masterful collection of tales, Dobie introduces us to Pedro Loco, General Mexhuira's ghost, the German, and a colorful group of oddfellows driven to roam the hills in an eternal quest for the hidden entrance, the blazed tree, the box canyon, for fabulous wealth glimpsed, lost, and never forgotten. Are treasures really there? Searchers still seek them. But for the reader, the treasure is here--Dobie's tales are pure gold., Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them.Death is the cure for gold fever, and the lucky few who saw the riches and lived to tell of them spent the rest of their lives searching, haunted by faulty memories, changed landscapes, and quirks of fate. It is the stories of these men and the wealth they pursued that J. Frank Dobie tells in Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver.In this masterful collection of tales, Dobie introduces us to Pedro Loco, General Mexhuira's ghost, the German, and a colorful group of oddfellows driven to roam the hills in an eternal quest for the hidden entrance, the blazed tree, the box canyon, for fabulous wealth glimpsed, lost, and never forgotten.Are treasures really there? Searchers still seek them. But for the reader, the treasure is here--Dobie's tales are pure gold., Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold fever, and the lucky few who saw the riches and lived to tell of them spent the rest of their lives searching, haunted by faulty memories, changed landscapes, and quirks of fate. It is the stories of these men and the wealth they pursued that J. Frank Dobie tells in Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. In this masterful collection of tales, Dobie introduces us to Pedro Loco, General Mexhuira's ghost, the German, and a colorful group of oddfellows driven to roam the hills in an eternal quest for the hidden entrance, the blazed tree, the box canyon, for fabulous wealth glimpsed, lost, and never forgotten. Are treasures really there? Searchers still seek them. But for the reader, the treasure is here-Dobie's tales are pure gold.