APACHE GOLD and YAQUI SILVER [SOLD]

APACHE GOLD and YAQUI SILVER 

by J. Frank Dobie - Illustrated by Tom Lea

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston

First published in 1928, this printing from 1954

Hardback with slip cover.  366 pages.  Very good condition throughout including slipcover

From the Jacket

“It is real gold and real silver and it is still there!

“Somewhere in our own southwest is a placer gold mine rich beyond belief.  A few men have seen it.  At least one man brought gold from it.  Many men have spent lifetimes searching for it.  Why was it never worked?  Its guardians did not want it worked.  Are the guards still there?  Go and find out if you will—it’s your life you risk.

“Somewhere in the Sierra Madre is a silver mine from which heavy-laden mules carried bullion to Mexico City for so many years that their hoofs wore holes in the rocky ledges of the trail.  Then suddenly they brought no more.  Did the vein run out? That is not what the legend says.  Remember, it is Apache gold and Yaqui silver.

“How much of all this is true?  ¿Quien sabe? Anyone who has read Coronado’s Children does not need to be convinced that J. Frank Dobie has prospected more exhaustively into the history and legends of the southwest than any other man. No crime detective was ever more zealous in pursuing a clue or more careful in cross-checking evidence.  He has not embroidered his tale.  He has not needed to.  Some of the evidence is contradictory but, is a witness lying when he tells what he believes, even though he tells things past ordinary belief?

“The sum of it all is a nerve-tingling account of buried treasure truer than many that launched fleets and depopulated towns.  It leaves the reader with admiration for the author and awe at the thought of those huge tracts of land, on both sides of our southern border, almost as little-known today and almost as hard to penetrate as they were four hundred years ago.  Are the guards still there?”

Contents

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

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