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Coronados Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
by Dobie, J Frank
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Dallas, Texas: The Southwest Press. Poor with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages. Reading copy. Clean text, former owner's name and information on the blank endpaper, name crossed out. Cloth covering on the spine is missing, not present. DJ flap was cut and glued to the endpaper. Dedication page: ... To The Memory of My Father R. J. Dobie, A Clean Cowman Of The Texas Soil. Famous legends of the lost mines of Northern Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. 19 chapters including The Lost SanSaba Mine, Down the Neuces, Facts About Fort Ramrez, Tales of the Cow Camp, Post Hold banks, The Lost Nigger Mine, Laffite and Pirate Booty, etc. Glossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest. Maps and Charts. Frontispiece plus other illustrations .
Synopsis
Texas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of the lost mines of the San Saba and Llano rivers, rumors of an untapped vein of wonderfully rich gold west of Paisano Pass in Devil's River country, tales of forgotten posthole stashes where prosperous frontier ranchers once "banked" their gold and silver coins, and more.
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- Bookshop Baltimore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22418
- Title
- Coronados Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
- Author
- Dobie, J Frank
- Illustrator
- Ben Carlton Mead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Southwest Press
- Place of Publication
- Dallas, Texas
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Hidden Treasures, The Lost Nigger Mine, Mines And Mineral Resources, San Saba Mine, Fort Ramirez, Los Muertos No Hablan, Pirate Booty, Guadalupes, The Schemhamforas
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- HISTORY;
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