Name of book? Erle Stanley Gardner treasure hunting caches

[chirper97]

In 1980 or so, I purchased a (now lost) book by Erle Stanley Gardner on treasure hunting caches from helicopters/airplanes. It had wonderful photos and appeared like the real article re: search for caches.

In a previous thread TNet forum member SWR posted the following about this book.
"What this could mean is that, possibly, some of the more famous treasures have been found and not reported. I recall reading a true story by Erle Stanley Gardner (lawyer and author of the Perry Mason mysteries) in which he hired a helicopter to explore the SW desert. He and his friends also used dune buggies to explore the desert, and sometimes they investigated the stories about treasures in the desert. He said he was intrigued by the story of the Lost Dutch Oven stash and eventually found the location - with the Dutch oven - but all the gold coins were gone. Was it true that someone beat him to it, or was it true that he found SOMEONE'S Dutch oven, but the wrong one? We'll never know, but it is interesting that even a man of Gardner's stature was interested in treasure tales. And he did something about his interest, he hired helicopters and built dune buggies to look for them. Cool!

My Google search failed to get a hit on this book.

Any help out there?

[Thomas L. Smith]

the name of the book is: hunting lost mines by helicopter.

[TXPIRATE]

A lot of Famous people were into treasure hunting # 1 being John Wayne

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

ESG wrote many books on treasure hunting. One as mentioned above was Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter. Here is a compilation of those which were listed in Journals of Eldorado by Estee Conatser and Karl von Mueller (1977)
The Desert is Yours - William Morrow and Company - 1963
Hovering Over Baja - William Morrow and Company - 1961
Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter - William Morrow and Company - 1965
Off the Beaten Track in Baja - Willim Morrow and Company - 1967
I know that there are four other ESG titles on treasure hunting in my files because i made a note to myself in my working copy of JoE. I'm not going to take the time and effort to find that data and list it here. Anyone is free to do that themselves. I'm just being lazy not trying to protect something i'm working on myself. I would do that by not posting at all - not by flirting with the topic. exanimo, siegfried schlagrule

[Mackaydon]

TL Smith:
Right on!!
Welcome to Treasure Net
Pub. Date: January 1965
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780641737343
ISBN: 0641737343

[chirper97]

TL Smith:
Right on!!
Welcome to Treasure Net
Pub. Date: January 1965
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780641737343
ISBN: 0641737343

TreasureNet rocks!

Thanks members!

[auferret]

This March 1966 Popular Science article might interest you.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jCk...age&q=&f=false

[chirper97]

This March 1966 Popular Science article might interest you.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jCk...age&q=&f=false

Nice, informative link....thanks!

I re-purchased Erle Stanley Gardner's book, and am enjoying it again! Well written, credible, and well worth the 25 bucks or so for an excellent condition copy.

"Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter - William Morrow and Company - 1965"

[Skifisher]

ESG also wrote articles for Desert Magazine, which I think is available on DVD. He stuff is great reading.

[Connecticut Danny]

Was any treasures found?