Lost mines and buried treasures of Arizona
By: W.C. Jameson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780826344137
Subjects: Treasure troves -- Arizona -- Anecdotes; Gold mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Anecdotes; Silver mines and mining -- Arizona -- History -- Anecdotes; Outlaws -- Arizona -- History -- Anecdotes; Legends -- Arizona; Arizona -- History, Local -- Anecdotes; Arizona -- Antiquities -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: 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."--Publisher's description.