CORONADO’S CHILDREN Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest [SOLD]

CORONADO’S CHILDREN Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

By J. Frank Dobie, Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1930

Hardback, first edition, 1930.  367 pages. Excellent condition. Slip cover torn in places.

From the Flyleaf

“More thrilling than any adventure tale of the imagination is this true story of those who, for four centuries, have sought treasure in the fabulous lost mines of the Southwest.  It is a fascinating saga of the length to which man will go in his search for gold—told with vigor, gusto and authority.

“This breathless cavalcade of the Southwest, from the time of Coronado down to today, presents a thousand exciting incidents.  Pirates, outlaws, cowboys, rangers and miners, as well as preachers and doctors, earth-treading farmers and gold-thirsty women, all play their parts.  Generations of men have disemboweled mountains, drained lakes and turned rivers out of their courses; countless lives have been lost and taken, unbelievable hardships endured, all in the search of gold.  In this book they pass before you in thrilling procession—gold-hungry adventurers, hoping, believing, striving, fighting—the mad horde of Coronado’s children”

Contents

I. The Lost San Saba Mine

II. Down the Nueces

III. The Facts About Fort Ramirez

IV. The Circumstance of War

V. Tales of the Cow Camp

VI. Post Hole Banks

VII. Midas on a Goatskin

VIII. The Lost [*] 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

*This word was removed as it's not politically correct.  

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