Anyone check this out? RealDeTayopa, perhaps?

[Blind.In.Texas]

I won't paste the text from the story. Just follow the link

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/ben-sublett-gold/Ben-Sublet-story.html

 

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[Zeitgeist_Xero]

There is a seperate thread or two already open on the Sublette mine... Speaking of which, here is a decent book on the area, though most of it is Legend style stories...


Tales of the Guadalupe Mountains by W. C. Jameson