1970's Lost Dutchman Video Screen Captures

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After PM'ing with another member, I decided to post some screen captures from an old Lost Dutchman Video I found on Ebay. It was made by Robert E. Lee. It's actually a very good informational video. Some of their Biographical stuff on Waltz is incorrect, but they have maps and locations that seem to work out the details pretty well........Enjoy

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The Peralta Stone Mine Map in this shot is great. Since this was taken(1962), there have been many jacka***s who like to add their mark to history, or Dutchhunters who took their own pics and marked it up so others wouldn't be able to see the original.

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Adolph Ruth's decapitated body was found less than 800 yds from here, and his head was found (first) about a quarter mile from there in the "Spanish Racetrack." In his journal was the inscription Vene,vidi,vici (I came, I saw, I conquered), and the Spanish Treasure map he had brought in with him was missing.

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Here's the legend himself.....Ed Piper in 1960(Right) and 1962

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Ed showing off an Adobe Dollar, and John DeGraffenreid 1962. Both died shortly after this film was made. Ed Piper died of cancer and DeGraffenreid died of natural causes.

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1. Is one of Peralta's Mines (from the map) 2. is where they buried a man named Klapp whom they found shot in the back of the head while filming the movie.

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Here is the area where most of the dead bodies have been found, Blacktop Mt.

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The Peralta Massacre Grounds 1962

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Here are two pics of the unfortunate Adolph Ruth (1931). The first is Brownie Holmes and his dog Music recovering the skull, and Tex Barkley at the site near Blacktop recovering the body (about a third of a mile from the head) about a month later.

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Now here is the unfortunate Walter Gassler in better days (1930s). In May of 1984, he knew exactly where to find the LDM, and the next thing anybody saw of him was on May 4th, when Don Shade and a guide from the OK Corral were riding up Charlebois Ridge and found his dead body sitting upright on a rock, just leaning back against another rock. Up the ridge a ways, they saw a man darting in and out of the brush, but couldn't see him well enough to get a description. Don Shade said he knew who the man was, but was afraid that if he told, he would be killed next time he went into the mountains.

Later a man introducing himself as Roland Gassler (Walter's son) showed up at the house of Tom Kollenborn. Walter had loaned some manuscripts to Kollenborn, and the man asked for them. He also showed Kollenborn some very high grade ore that he said came from his fathers backpack. A few months later, while giving a speech, Tom Kollenborn met the real Roland Gassler. Nobody ever found out who the first Roland Gassler really was, and the manuscripts never resurfaced.

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Gollum: Did the video show the Hiway marker from the State of Arizona stating, "This is where the Dutchman would leave the stage to go to his mine"?
The last time I saw it was in 1982 on the Florence Junction to Apache Junction Hiway(U.S.Rts 60,80,89).