gollum
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Beth & Roy,
We will most likely never know the exact truth of the stone maps (unless someone figures them out or an historical document that mentions them is found).
When Tumlinson first found them, we have the word of a man who helped him clean them off that there were "still little roots growing in the letters". We have Bob Corbin stating that the FBI Agent he spoke to said that the FBI believed they were "over 100 years old (in 1964)." There is also a lot more anecdotal evidence to show that they were historical objects, and not modern frauds.
While it is possible that they were faked in the 1800s and then discarded (Reaves Fraud). To me, it is more likely that they (at one time) led to hidden mines or treasure. I think that they were all discarded at the same spot because either:
1. That is where they fell while the animal they were on ran from the attacking Apache while wiping out the Peralta Family, and laid there from about 1847 until 1949.
2. Whatever they led the way to was all worked out (or emptied), and they were no longer of any value, so, on the way back to Mexico, they were dumped where they were found.
Best-Mike
We will most likely never know the exact truth of the stone maps (unless someone figures them out or an historical document that mentions them is found).
When Tumlinson first found them, we have the word of a man who helped him clean them off that there were "still little roots growing in the letters". We have Bob Corbin stating that the FBI Agent he spoke to said that the FBI believed they were "over 100 years old (in 1964)." There is also a lot more anecdotal evidence to show that they were historical objects, and not modern frauds.
While it is possible that they were faked in the 1800s and then discarded (Reaves Fraud). To me, it is more likely that they (at one time) led to hidden mines or treasure. I think that they were all discarded at the same spot because either:
1. That is where they fell while the animal they were on ran from the attacking Apache while wiping out the Peralta Family, and laid there from about 1847 until 1949.
2. Whatever they led the way to was all worked out (or emptied), and they were no longer of any value, so, on the way back to Mexico, they were dumped where they were found.
Best-Mike