eBook - ePub
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
- 352 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
About this book
"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
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- “The Precious Ability to Wonder”
- In the Beginning
- I. The Lost San Saba Mine
- II. Down the Nueces
- III. The Facts about Fort Ramírez
- IV. The Circumstance of War
- V. Tales of the Cow Camp
- VI. Post Hole Banks
- VII. Midas on a Goatskin
- VIII. The Lost Nigger Mine
- IX. On West
- X. Los Muertos No Hablan
- XI. The Challenge of the Desert
- XII. In the Sunshine of the Pecos
- XIII. The Pecos Barricade
- XIV. The Secret of the Guadalupes
- XV. Not Only Gold and Silver
- XVI. Sartin for Sure
- XVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas
- XVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty
- XIX. Shadows and Symbols
- Notes
- Glossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest