Real of Tayopa
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No Roy / Beth
Man Eaing hounds I see that one lassie must have spoken out ot turn bandaged left arm.

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yep....not bad,,we'll have to go again next year
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet AZDave or Carrol while I was there. I wandered around on Saturday and spent a little time visiting a site Rick Gwynn wanted to show near the Burns Ranch. I probably saw one or both of you, but didn't know who you were and I'm usually not a very sociable person who'll just come up and introduce myself to someone I don't know. Maybe next year.
Glad you could come out for awhile though. Even though personally it's lost some appeal for me, it's always worth a few good stories and it's good to be able to put faces to names.
sorry we missed you too....did rick show you the old mission site?
Yes he did. There isn't much left but rubble and it looks like someone(s) did a good job of digging around in it over time (probably with a backhoe). It's pretty tough at this point to guess what it was - stone cabin, storage building, Native American ruins or ?? I don't remember if Bob Ward put a photo of what it looked like during his time in his book but I'll check tonight.
I know for certain it wasn't the photo that Not Peralta posted a year or more ago of what he claimed was the mission because there isn't any mountain background anywhere near that matched that photo.
I didn't make it on friday night, but did on sat.....an hour or so before sundown.
Roy and Beth were there, as was Matthew Roberts, Joe and Caroline, Tom and Sharon K., Thomas Glover, Bob Schoose, Frank A., Salvador, Wayne and Trevor Tuttle, Randy W.,Rick Gwynne, Paul S., Roger N., and many others well known to the community. As always, a very interesting gathering of good folks with a wealth of knowledge of all things LDM and many other treasure legends.
As the saying goes....you ain't bin there till you bin there !!
That's too bad. I had wanted to compare notes on a couple of places in the mountains.
I was watching for him while I was hiking out there myself that week, but didn't see anyone, other than a couple of deer hunters.
Are you sure how the hunters were hunting deer ? Because I have read a different version .
rumor is either crawford or garmin dug it up...the stone blocks were removed years ago and used for a block wall in some hillbillys yard in apache junction
Probably some cotton-picking peckerhead whose fond of listening to fellow squirrel-sandwich eating, hilly-billy singing songs about "bashing the British" (say thanks to your Frenchie friends; mind you, you took a pounding in Vietnam for them and repaid the favour I suppose), who doesn't have any acknowledgement for history, education, posterity or even the concept of art.
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" cotton-picking peckerhead whose fond of listening to fellow squirrel-sandwich eating, hilly-billy singing songs about "bashing the British"
yep...shotgun toting ,hog calling, bourbon drinking, 4wd truck driving, bar fighting ,toothless hillbillys...just good old boys..my kind of feller's
Being one of those Missouri Ozarks Hillbilly's you like to slam on here...
I invite you down to meet some of these fine folks..
Enjoy some of our many lakes and rivers, do some fishing, canoeing..
Pay no attention to that banjo music coming from the holler....
Being one of those Missouri Ozarks Hillbilly's you like to slam on here...
I invite you down to meet some of these fine folks..
Enjoy some of our many lakes and rivers, do some fishing, canoeing..
Pay no attention to that banjo music coming from the holler....