Park county treasure tails?

[bluetooth]

I have been reading about the reynolds gang and several lost mines in the park county area, does anyone know any other stories or books I could read about treasure tales in park county? I have also heard a tale about spanish gold near alma, but have not found any books that talk about it. Thanks

 

[lastleg]

Bluetooth:

See if you can find a copy of "Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns
and Mining Camps" by Perry Eberhart. 495 pages of good research.
Includes some remote places you wouldn't even know existed. Alma
gets a whole page.

lastleg

 

[bluetooth]

Thanks for the recomendation, I got it from the library today some really good stuff so far!

 

[Seajay]

bluetooth,

Look for titles by Caroline Bancroft. I picked up some reprints of her earlier pamphlets while vacationing out that way. Here are some other titles/authors that might be of help:

Colorado's Colorful Characters by Gladyz R. Bueler
Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns by Robert L. Brown
Ghosts of Park County by John K. Aldrich
Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure by Caroline Bancroft
Colorful Coloradoby Caroline Bancroft
Colorado Treasure Trails by W. C. James
The WPA guide to 1930s Colorado (Reprint) with an introduction by Thomas J. Noel

Seajay

 

[Seajay]

Forgot this one!

Butch Cassidy, The Congenial Desperado by Herb Walker

Seajay

 

[Seajay]

H. Glenn Carson's A Guide To Treasure In Colorado (1995)

Seajay

 

[HighPlainsHunter]

Here are a couple more:

"Treasure Tailes of the Rockies" by Perry Eberhart

"Golden Treasures of the San Juan" by Temple H. Cornelius

Good hunting,
HighPlainsHunter

 

[lastleg]

Those are all great resources. I remember checking out Brown's Colorado Ghost
Town books from the library and getting the fever which led eventually going to
as many as possible. The Eberhart book is basic training for ghosts seekers. The
Cornelius book is five-star for Colorado cache hunters.

But all the books mentioned are ancient by today's standards. 1961 - "Golden
Treasures of the San Juans"; 1959 - "Colorado Ghost Town and Mining Camps;
the classic Brown's Ghost Town books were written in the 50's.

The most recent addition to my Colorado library is "Colorado Rockhounding"
by Stephen M. Voynick - 1994. This fills the gap on where to go in Colorado to
find precious metals, mineral, gemstones and fossils.

Anyone have any others I have missed?

lastleg

 

[Wild Boulder Bill]

Must have "Atlas of colorado ghost towns". Lost treasures of Colorado by Sydney Moon. Most others are rework of treasure tales that have been around since the 1800s. In Park County forget the Treasure Tales follow the Gold. Thats just my opinion though. There is still a lot of gold being found up there; Gold occurrences in Colorado a excellent book with maps. One of my favorites.

 

[RGINN]

If you get the chance, go west over to Lake County to Half Moon Gulch and see what you come up with. I found a bunch of old cartridge shells and some strangely bent trees. (None older than about 75 years or so, I don't think.)

 

[ladyr5]

Not to rain on your parade but have you read the reviews on most of those books?? They do not write truth.. The real answer is to find newspaper articles about the treasure in question.. I dont trust the books..

 

[lastleg]

ladyR5:

Where go we get the reviews? I would sure like to read
them, if possible. I like to sample opposing views instead
of swallowing the yarn.

Thanks in advance,
lastleg

 

[dmk6]

WOW I SHOULD NOT TELL YOU THIS, I CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE THOUGHT OF THE BEST BOOK ON SOUTH PARK, BAYOU SALADO. YOU CAN GET IT AT GOLD N DETECTORS IN GOLDEN, CO. BY FAR THE BEST BOOK ON SOUTH PARK

 

[coloradocav]

WOW I SHOULD NOT TELL YOU THIS, I CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE THOUGHT OF THE BEST BOOK ON SOUTH PARK, BAYOU SALADO. YOU CAN GET IT AT GOLD N DETECTORS IN GOLDEN, CO. BY FAR THE BEST BOOK ON SOUTH PARK

it's alot cheaper on ebay though.