Download or read book Western Treasure Tales written by Choral Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s, J. Ross Browne, that century's most able reporter of western mining lore wrote that old prospectors did more to open up our vast interior territories for settlement and civilization than did all the scientific expeditions ever sent across the Rocky Mountains. By following old trails like Pegleg Smith's across the desert or succumbing to the nebulous moonbeam that beckoned French miners to Colorado, Choral Pepper allows the reader to truly experience the history of our land.Browne's old prospectors were not the first to blaze trails to Western treasure. In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors developed mines as far north as Utah. One-fifth of all gold and silver they produced was poured into molds, the Royal Fifth, that belonged to the King. Tax dodging is nothing new, however. Isolated mines like those of the Tumacacori were worked illicitly and often hastily abandoned. Now they enrich our legendary West.Treasure legends are an integral part of Western Americana. It is through them that our country's history is most provocatively told. Pepper has personally researched the treasure tales recounted in her book in the field, turning up hitherto unknown clues to give readers a head start on their own treasure hunts.
Download or read book Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales written by Steve Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains stories; some true, some legendary, about caches of lost treasure.
Download or read book Treasure Tales of the Rockies written by Perry Eberhart and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Sage Books, 1969.
Download or read book Colorado Treasure Tales written by and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
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, ....
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 2010-01-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Buried Treasures of the Pacific Northwest written by W. C. Jameson and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Indians living today know the location of the supposededly cursed Lost Gold of Devil's Sink? Did Sir Francis Drake bury millions of dollars'worth of ancient Incan treasures? Has anyone found the box of gold coins buried by a reputed giant in the Washington rain forest? Is there a noble family's fortune buried near an old log cabin in the Cascades?
Download or read book Lost Oklahoma Treasure written by W. Craig Gaines and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklahoma keeps its secrets. Adventurers combing the Wichita Mountains for the legendary Lost Cave with an Iron Door can slake their thirst at Cache Creek or Treasure Lake. Following the tradition of French and Spanish explorers, miners and pioneers stashed their valuable discoveries along the Santa Fe Trail and the California Road. Chief Opothleyahola reportedly buried gold coins that could be worth more than $14 million today, while businessman Dr. John J. Hayes never returned from a Confederate refugee camp to reclaim his hidden fortune. From the unrecovered loot of the James Gang to the fabled funds of the Knights of the Golden Circle, W. Craig Gaines tracks tales of treasure across sixty Oklahoma counties.
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.
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
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.
Download or read book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Old Wyoming written by W. C. Jameson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. Jameson, an expert on treasure hunting, now turns his attention to Wyoming s lost fortunes. With his gift for storytelling, he relates intriguing legends and historical accounts of lost gold, buried payrolls, and hidden strongboxes. Jameson takes us on an adventure to the four corners of Wyoming to investigatae tehe Snake River Pothold Gold, the Hallelujah Gulch Robbery Loot, the Lost Treasure of Big Nose George, the Lost Cabin Gold Mine, and twelve other action packed tales. Jameson has written more than 60 books on treasure hunting and served as an advisor to Walt Disney Productions on the National Treasure movies starring Nicholas Cage. An amateur treasure hunter in Texas testified in court that he had found a multi-million dollar lost treasure by using only a copy of one of Jameson s books and Google Earth for directions.
Download or read book Lost Treasures of American History written by W.C. Jameson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.
Download or read book 10 Treasure Legends West Virginia written by J. Hutton Pulitzer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Treasure really out there? A resounding YES! Over $14 trillion dollars of it! Then why is "Treasure Hunting" considered to be a dirty word and said in hushed tones? Why does so much of society not want people hunting for Lost Treasures and Treasure Legends? The reasoning is simple: Many people DO NOT want to see other people successful and rich beyond their wildest dreams. But now, more than ever Treasure after Lost Treasure is being recovered. Thanks to better technology, better research tools and that good ol' American Spirit and Determination! "10 Treasure Legends" is a simple book series. One book for each State in the United States. The 10 Treasure Legends inside this work are legends of buried or lost treasure and fortunes. If you are willing to separate fact from fiction - who knows? You might be the one to find them and make history. These Treasure Legends have been around a long time, and time after time people have wanted to or claimed to go after them, but the truth is - they are still lost and out there for someone like you to find. Not a lot of technical how to or educational mumbo-jumbo in this series; only the legends as best as the legends can be retold. But, there are some tools included should you get excited and decide to research, investigate and either prove or disprove these Treasure Legends for yourself. Go Treasure and Lost History Hunting with COMMANDER Hutton Pulitzer of ExpeditionHistory.org and TreasureForce. The World's Foremost History Expedition and Terrestrial Treasure Recovery Team and COMMANDER plans and manages missions all around the globe. TreasureForce combines historical re-enactments and forensic research with the most advanced tools and instruments in the world to locate and recover famous Lost Treasures and to either prove or disprove various Treasure Legends. As an Inventor, Commander Pulitzer is globally one of the foremost Inventors in modern times, recognized as one of the "Top 50 Inventors in the World", and as an Author, he has published over 200 individual History and Treasure Hunting titles. Cacheology Society of America and the Cacheology Society and Institute of the United Kingdom are the governing and certification boards of Certified Cacheologists. Cacheology: The profession, whereby highly trained and certified individuals, using archaeological methods combined with forensic historical research and modern technology, set out to either prove or disprove, dispel or recover, set the historical record straight or professionally document, the various types of caches, common treasures or otherwise, that have been lost to history and mankind. The mission of the Cacheologists is to recover lost caches, using profit driven methods, for the expansion of mankind's study, education, instruction, collecting, showcasing, and the preservation of caches that time and the environment rapidly and thoroughly destroy, thus erasing vital and irreplaceable historical records and artifacts of the entire world.
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
Download or read book Lost Treasure Trails written by Thomas Penfield and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of treasure lost or hidden on land and sea, mostly in the Western Hemisphere, and suggestions on the technique of treasure-hunting.
