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Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71052-8. "New Search for Lost Gold: Amateur Prospectors Follow Legends in Hunt for Millions in Buried Treasure". Ebony. 15 (6). April 1960. ISSN 0012-9011. Porter, Kenneth W. (1954). "Willie Kelley of the Lost Nigger Mine".
Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history. Some lost mine legends have a historical basis, and some have none. Regardless, the lure of these legends is attested by the many books on the subject, and the popularity of publications such as Lost Treasure magazine. [1] [2]
Port Aransas (/ ə ˈ r æ n z ə s / ə-RAN-zəs) [4] is a city in Nueces County, Texas, United States. This city is 180 miles southeast of San Antonio. The population was 2,904 at the 2020 census. Port Aransas is the only established town on Mustang Island. It is located north of Padre Island and is one of the longest barrier islands along ...
The scattered remains of the wooden vessel named Santa Maria de Yciar are buried off Padre Island, Texas near Mansfield. This vessel, which wrecked in 1554 when part of a treasure flota, lies within the Padre Island National Seashore. [ 2 ]
Dutch Schultz's treasure Legend 1935: Fearing imminent incarceration, notorious Depression-era gangster Dutch Schultz was said to have buried $7 million in cash and bonds somewhere in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. He was gunned down shortly thereafter together with his associates, and as they did not disclose the location of the ...
Meyer died on April 15, 1975, and is buried in El Paso’s B’nai Zion Cemetery. Adal Nasr Allah was 17 when she boarded the Titanic in 1912 as a second class passenger. She boarded a lifeboat ...
Coronado's Children (1930) was the second book written by J. Frank Dobie, published by The Southwest Press in 1930.It deals with lore of lost mines and lost treasures in the Southwestern United States, for the most part in Texas.
The silver bracelets were found in what was likely the same place they were originally buried, offering more insight into to the origin story of the treasure. Silver was the Vikings’ treasure of ...