lost gold mines

  1. Looking for Slumach's Gold & Truth!

    Me and my team are looking for leads. Heading out soon. Is the Pitt Lake gold real??? Who was Slumach really? Taylor
  2. The Lost Ledge - Breyfogle - J. Ross Browne's 1869 Account - Part I

    Adventures in the Apache Country; A Tour Through Arizona and Sonora, with Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada, by J. Ross Browne (New York: 1869) CHAPTER LI. THE LOST LEDGE. THERE is a class of men peculiar to our new mineral territories to whom the world has not yet done justice. In...
  3. The Lost Ledge - Breyfogle - J. Ross Browne's 1869 Account - Part II

    Part II. All attempts to find the ledge having thus failed through a strange fatality attending the discoverers, the company was compelled to abandon the enterprise. Other parties, however, undertook to find it from the general descriptions given of the locality. Three years after the death of...
  4. Mexican Bonanza - Henry Flipper Searches for Lost Mines - 1887

    In the summer of 2015 I posted a newspaper article by Henry O. Flipper. He wrote "You and your readers will undoubtedly recall the articles published in the Globe Democrat and other eastern papers, during the summer of 1887, on the discovery of certain 'lost mines' in the Sierra Madre by myself...
  5. Treasure Myths of the Southwest - 1908 - Part II

    Treasure Myths Southwest - Part II Pecos Has Its Own Treasure PECOS, the birthplace of the myth of Quivira, within recent years has come into possession of a mythical treasure of its own. This was one of the most populous of the pueblos, its inhabitants numbering at the time of the discovery...
  6. Treasure Myths of the Southwest - 1908 - Part I

    TREASURE MYTHS OF SOUTHWEST By JOHN L. COWAN ================= Drawings by Wladyslaw T. Bends BLESSED are the myth makers; for theirs is the kingdom of the nonexistent. And unto us, who are not of the elect, is given the blessed privilege of belief; and belief in the four cardinal myths is...
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