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Lost during World War II in China in 1941 when the U.S. Marine Corps moved them out of Japanese-occupied Beijing or may have been on Japanese ship Awa Maru when it was torpedoed by the USS Queenfish and sank in April 1945.
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]
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".
Without preservation, Fort Worth could have lost gems like the Stockyards, Public Market and Ridglea Theater. These Fort Worth treasures have landed on list of city’s ‘endangered places ...
Millions of dollars worth of gold was lost or unaccounted for after the war, and its possible location has been a source of speculation for many historians and treasure hunters. Allegedly, some of the Confederate treasury was hidden in the hope that the South would rise again, and at other times simply so that the Union would not gain ...
Shipwrecks of the Texas coast (1 C, 15 P) W. ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A. USS Accokeek; Albatross (1920 schooner) SS Alcoa Puritan (1941) USS Annie;
Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, slipped out of his Hood County, Texas, enclosure a week before Thanksgiving and made his way to Hico, Texas. Here’s how he found his way home.
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.