Treasure Hunting, by Harold T. Wilkins

[aw11mr2]

Treasure Hunting: The Treasure Hunter’s Own Book of Land Caches and Bullion Wrecks
Wilkins, Harold T.
Glorieta, NM: The Rio Grande Press, Inc.
Copyright 1939
1989, Reprint. A Rio Grande Classic first published in 1939
Soft cover, Original Preface and Foreword not included in reprint, 394 pages
ISBN 0-87380-169-5
6.0 x 9.0 inches



Mr. Wilkins was a prolific writer of treasure hunting books:
1. Hunting Hidden Treasures, 1929
2. Modern Buried Treasure Hunters, 1934
3. Captain Kidd and His Skeleton Island. 1937
4. Pirate Treasure, 1937
5. Treasure Hunting, 1939
6. Panorama of Treasure Hunting, 1940


Treasure tales from around the world. Chapter 8 contains several North America treasure tales, including east coast pirate treasure,
Jean Lafitte’s treasure, and the Pegleg Smith lost black encrusted gold nuggets.

I. Mysteries of Davy Jones’s Graveyard
II. The Riddle of the Incas’ Lost Trails
III. Mysteries and Myths of Cocos Island
IV. Old Mexico’s Dark Houses
V. Gold Beetles of the Spanish Main
VI. Cracking Davy Jones’s Locker
VII. Australasia’s Hidden Gold
VIII. North America’s “Money Lights”
IX. Mother Asia’s Mystic Treasure Vaults
X. Doubloon Islands in Desert Seas
XI. Africa — Khan Kanaka!
XII. Secrets of Europe’s Subterranean Caches
XIII. Diving Sixty-Six Fathoms for the Egypt’s Gold

 

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[Old Bookaroo]

aw11mr2 has posted a great deal of useful information on treasure hunting books. Well played!

Wilkins was a fiction writer - prolific, as you state, but not reliable. After Bob McCoy reprinted this one he asked me about another - I went through it quite carefully and it was riddled with errors, mistakes, and material Mr. Wilkins flat made up. For example, he drew the "treasure maps" in Captain Kidd's Skeleton Island.

Later in life Wilkins left treasure hunting for the universe of flying saucers and paranormal events. He also wrote a pamphlet on the mystery of the Mary Celeste - possibly the most unreliable work on that fascinating topic ever published, and that is saying a lot.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[Mackaydon]

I had this book; interesting reading--accurate or not.

Don...

I think I got the book because it had a story of Drake's dumping 40,000 somethings on Cano Island, South America

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Mr. Wilkins could write - no question about that. There's a good reason so many of his books were published. They can be entertaining.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo