TreasureTales said:
Sounds like a great book. Can you list chapter titles?
Saw that this book was available in a few shops, priced at $6.95 with shipping at $4.00 and up. 63 pages, right?
Yep, 63 pages total. Here's the chapter / subject headings:
CONTENTS
Introduction
Foreword
1. Use of This Guide
2. The Searcher's Mind And Virtures
3. Limiting The Search
4. Gathering The Tools
5. Dark Clouds
6. Developing The General Lead,
Research Shortcut
7. Geographical Validation Of General Lead
Shortcut, Caution
8. Expanding Into A Series Of Specific Leads,
Shortcut, More Caution
9. Rating The Specific Lead
10. Geographically Locating The Specific Lead,
Shortcut
11. Conclusion
Appendix A Letters & Addresses
Appendix B With List of Historical Societies
Appendix C As I Was Saying...
Book list / Glossary
To illustrate the raw meat value of this book, I've decided to quote the " Introduction " written by the publisher. It's a grabber.
QUOTE:
INTRODUCTION
Finding the author and his work was as much a treasure hunt, a research, as I have ever accomplishsed. My personal quest for this written guide lasted fifteen years. Early on, looking for treasure, it became clear that "just waiting for a good lead to show up" would soon dull my enthusiasm. Besides, all the famous book-described, newspaper-headlined, paperbacked TREASURE stories already had an old and a new crop of hunters stomping over well-pounded ground. I kept searching and one day I read across a particular ad which caught my attention. From the reading to the greeting was thirty-six hours.
The author's background includes a Degree in History, a period of time studying the Law and an intense study of Computer Science. He's a business man whose personal time to research is extremely limited. Therefore his logic dictated the straight-arrow approach. No mysteries, just get to the point. He has done so.
The most IMPORTANT word for you to fully understand in his writing is: "GENERATED". You will become your own generator of valid treasure leads. That's what this manual is all about. You will not have to wait for someone else to hand you a tired, worked-over, revised, re-written, re-hash of a NO-LEAD. You will generate your own fresh, valid waybill to a cache. No better waybill will exist.
How to do treasure lead generation is a
primer that gives you both a foot and a hand-hold on a sometimes vertical path. Let this work be your guide to greater adventure and more profitable results.
NAC
Austin, TX
Sept. 1986
UNQUOTE
Here are some quotes from the author as written in the FOREWORD to this book:
"... in defining treasure as rare, valuable and desirable, we should add compact, portable and easily convertible to money."
" The sole purpose of this document is to provide you with the means of logically uncovering 'leads' that can be used to increase your chances of finding some of that treasure."
"Seek Spanish treasure and sooner or later you are going to find documents written in Spanish. I don't read or speak present day Spanish, much less the Spanish of four hundred years ago."
"A metal dedector and coin shooting can be a lot of fun. But, clad coins with mint dates after 1964 just didn't stir my blood."
"I read and reread every treasure hunting publication I could get my hands on. In each one, every author agreed that well-researched leads paid off. They all agreed, the better the research, the better the lead. There was only one problem with the stories, apart from rather casual mention of libraries, land records, and old newspapers...
No one laid down the guidelines for "well-researched leads."
"...my results are in my pocket. I dont't claim to have the best methods for uncovering treasure leads. I don't even claim to have all of the methods. But I do know methods that can generate valid leads, if properly used."
"A metal detector in the closet signals no coins nor treasures. Unused methods of finding leads will produce no leads either."
"...effort is still up to you. The methods are contained in this document."
"These methods do require effort. And they can produce more leads than can be followed up. The search effort required is such that I couldn't begin to exhaust the leads in Texas, much less, the United States."
"Many people search for the pleasure of the search. Heres's a salute to those who find more pleasure in the finding."
"Author, D.H.B."
That's about all I can do to get anyone interested in getting this book. I will not photocopy and post it on the net---that would be stealing. At least in my never humble opinion.
