Re: Why is the identity of the men and date of event important?
May 14, 1998 at 05:16:41
In Reply to: Re: Adams and Davidson identities, locations
posted by Jack (NM) on May 13, 1998 at 14:58:28
From the treasure hunting perspective the reasons the identity of the men involved and the date of the events is only important because, first, it would confirm the sticky question of whether the Lost Adams Diggings is myth, or fact, and might explain why both Adams and Brewer seem to have not been truthful about what they were doing in Tuscon or the Pima villages in the first place; when they were there, etc. When two men, neither knowing the other survived, each independently take the trouble to lie about a seemingly trivial matter decades later, something smells of old fish. Whatever and whyever they were doing there, it was not what they said in their stories, Adams in 1875 when he returned, and Brewer when he returned in 1887. Their stories of the events differ enough in too many ways to fail to arouse suspicion. If one, or the other is telling the truth about everything except the date of the events, there's still a problem of why the prevarication.
Brewer only told one version of his story, and he told it confidentially to Tenney. The story never emerged publically until 1927, when Brewer was long dead and Ammon Tenney related the story to the El Paso Herald. However, even when he told the story, Tenney failed to mention that he knew Brewer for many years thereafter, and that Brewer resided in Mexico from 1894, or thereabouts, to 1912, buying ranches for all his friends, and spending money like a drunken sailor. He also failed to mention that James Chase, James Gray, and Tenney were in Mexico with Brewer. Why? It would have seemed an obvious thing to mention.
Adams told so many versions of the story it's difficult to see the similarities between them at times. Shaw, his partner later in life, then told several other versions at different times.
The second reason the identities and dates are important is for the purpose of pinpointing the location of Adams' rescue, which would help nail the location of the canyon, since Adams escaped to the west. The plac
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