Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend write by W. C. Jameson. This book was released on 2014-09-01. Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dig Here!
Dig Here! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dig Here! write by Thomas Penfield. This book was released on 2004. Dig Here! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Texas
Buried Treasures of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried Treasures of Texas write by W. C. Jameson. This book was released on 1991. Buried Treasures of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects legends of buried treasure in Texas, including the gold of Haystack Mountain, a missing Incan hoard, and the Deer Island shipwrecks
Coronado's Children
Coronado's Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coronado's Children write by J. Frank Dobie. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Coronado's Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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 Mines & Buried Treasures Along the Old Frontier
Lost Mines & Buried Treasures Along the Old Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Mines & Buried Treasures Along the Old Frontier write by John Donald Mitchell. This book was released on 1971. Lost Mines & Buried Treasures Along the Old Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
