The Lost Adams Diggings - Myth, Mystery and Madness
Does anyone have any discoveries or news on finding any of the following lost gold mines in the US?
Lost Apache Gold Mine
Ben Sublett Mine in Texas
Guadalupe Gold Mine
Geronimo's Gold Mine
Adam's Diggings
Thorpe Mine
Shaeffer Diggings
Like to start a discussion on these lost treasures and find out if anyone has found anything? Also have information to share...
---Curly
Hi Curly
The Lost Adams Diggings - Myth, Mystery and Madness
The book is mine, so it qualifies as shameless self-promotion, me putting it here. It's the product of a lot of years of research in libraries, on the internet, and poring through material from the US Archives, as well as trekking into countless canyons in NM and AZ, knowing exactly where it was a hundred times, until I got there.
It's 240 pages, heavily footnoted and fully indexed to allow you to find almost any aspect of the research, the country, or the versions of the legend. This is the last book anyone will ever need to write about the Lost Adams Diggings until someone wants to tell the story of finding it (if they happen to be that stupid).
You can read sample chapters here:
http://www.jackpurcellbooks.us/ and you can read the reviews by people who've already read it here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974385247/qid=1081208729/sr=2-1/?tag=treasurenet01-20.
One chapter of the book tells as many locations I've already visited as I could remember, and what I found there, along with the UTM coordinates of those locations. Another gives a plethora of likely locations I haven't been to yet, but hope to someday if I live long enough, along with their UTM coordinates. There's a chapter on desert survival (a condensed version of my ebook,
Desert Emergency Survival Basics that's also listed on Amazon. The rest is all research, analysis, and a lot of material that hasn't seen the light of day since before automobiles and pavement.
There's a middling chance it's in your local library, or that they'll pick up a copy if you ask for it. So, if you don't want to buy it, be my guest.
If you do want to buy it and you'd like a signed copy you'd do best to buy it from the website. Otherwise you might want to take a look at some of the price-breaks some of the sellers are giving it under the
New and Used Amazon listings.
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I'm getting into this discussion a bit late, but I see a few items here I'd like to toss out an observation or comment about:
As for Geronimo, he hated the whites that ran his people off there land and why would he give the location to the mine or mines known to his people. sounds like he was pulling a joke on the white people. good luck, boomer
Geronimo was about 20 years too young to have much to do with the Adams. And mostly, before it all ended every Apache hated white people. Provided they didn't start out that way.
Aha. When you consider the allegation that the Mormons and the KGC were but two arms of a much larger organization, things seem to fit together a little more snugly, don't they? Maybe Jack's Mormon connection makes a little more sense than many have given him credit for.
Springfield, I don't know whether my 'Mormon connection' makes sense or not, but the connection's there, for certain. Brewer was definitely in Mexico from the late 1890s until 1912. He had kids there, on public record, as late as around 1902. The last one died in California in the late 1980s. And Brewer and both Tenneys were definitely Mormons. Ammon Tenney Sr. founded the Mormon community of Ramah, NM, before he moved to Walnut Grove farm near Springerville.
Weirder, and making even less sense, Brigham Young's wife, Susan Snively Young has a bothersome and unusual maiden name shared with Jacob Snively, who was almost certainly the 'German'/'Dutchman' of the Adams tale.
It's been said that Dobie was set up to write many of his stories as a cover up.
Coverup for what? Dobie was a story teller. He told a composite version of the Adams yarns as told by Adams and Brewer, balling up all the differences and punting so he'd have a good story. He succeeded. But in doing so there's no telling how many treasure hunters were led astray after 1928 by believing the Dobie book was something other than a work of fiction. Historical fiction.
I believe John Brewer's story as told for the first time in the El Paso Herald in 1928, Nana's story as told to Street (Street's position at Ojo Caliente at the right time to support the story is well documented, including a Land Office description of his home and store), and Jacob Snively are the keys to the location of the Adams, provided it actually exists.
I believe there are good, understandable reasons Adams never named the German and went to some lengths to avoid doing so. One of those reasons was Jack Swilling.
I believe the reason the Adams wasn't found during those years when the heavy searching was going on was fairly simple: John Brewer's story hadn't been published and it wasn't even known by the majority of the searchers. If it had been that country west of Pueblo Arieto would have had every inch explored at a time when New Mexico was packed to the gills with prospector/miners who knew the trade.
Best to you,
Jack
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