Author: W.C. Jameson Publisher: Caxton Press ISBN: 9780870045523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran treasure hunter and folklorist W.C. Jameson presetns twenty-six colorful, inriguing and mysterious stories about fortunes lost and found in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico.
Author: Marshall Bulle Publisher: ISBN: 9780692576441 Category : Frontier and pioneer life Languages : en Pages : 268
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For those who have never heard of the Lost Adams Diggings, this book will introduce you to a story that is almost beyond belief. We would not have believed it ourselves had it not been for the overwhelming evidence we found. This story not only actually happened, but it took place in 1863, in the wild and rugged Black Range of New Mexico. For those of you who know the story well, you are in for a surprise.The Black Range, once referred to as "The Devil Mountains" by the Spanish had long hidden this lost gold mine from the outside world, along with other dark secrets, for well over a century. When Larry Ditzer and I first began searching some of the higher elevations of New Mexico's wild and rugged Black Range for an old Spanish cannon, once seen there by cowboy Walt Nichols in the 1950s, we sure never dreamed it would eventually lead us to the location of the famous Lost Adams Diggings. The location of the Lost Adams Diggings is in one of the roughest and most treacherous places to get around in the Black Range we had ever been.
Author: Sherry Monahan Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 0826341772 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly. When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons and breweries. By July of the following year, the number of saloons in Tombstone had doubled. The most popular saloon games of the time were faro, monte, and poker, with some offering keno, roulette, and twenty-one. Monahan shares true tales about Tombstone's mining and gambling history and describes a different time and locale where wealthy businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows at the bar and gambled side by side. It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks. Tombstone actually had telephones, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! It is so contrary to the Hollywood version of the town . . . but it's absolutely true."--from the Foreword by Bob Boze Bell Read Sherry Monahan's interview on AMC on the Wild West and the film Wild Bill
Author: Jack Kutz Publisher: ISBN: 9780936455020 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 236
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"Discover the haunted mesas, the eerie, bloodthirsty canyons, and the scorching wastelands that are beyond the freeways, away from the cities in surreal New Mexico"--Cover
Author: Forrest Fenn Publisher: One Horse Land & Cattle Limited Company ISBN: 9780967091785 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 147
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This book is the remarkable true story of Forrest Fenn's life and of a hidden treasure, secreted somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe. The book contains clues to the treasure's location as Forrest Fenn invites readers to join in The Thrill of the Chase.
Author: Ruben Salaz Marquez Publisher: ISBN: 9780932492074 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 678
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Every book has a history of its own and New Mexico: A Brief Multi-History could be considered one of the mini-sagas worthy of inclusion in this comprehensive chronology of people, places, and events that begins with precontact inhabitants of the Southwest. The more than four hundred years of recorded history includes information on all the groups living in our New Mexico, the oldest European colony in what is today the USA, and is "the way history should be written." Enriched by many illustrations, this inclusive Multi-History is the most comprehensive single volume available for the New Mexican sagas of "ordinary and extraordinary people, places, and events" from 1598 to the present. The general reader, history buffs, students, and scholars alike will be empowered by this ". . . basic resource for New Mexico and the Southwest" because of its panorama of "cultural and historical events, profile biographies, and penetrating comparative analysis . . . a timeless triumph."
Author: William DeBuys Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826308207 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.
Author: W.C. Jameson
Author: Marshall Bulle
Author: Sherry Monahan
Author: W. C. Jameson
Author: Jack Kutz
Author: Forrest Fenn
Author: Ruben Salaz Marquez
Author: William DeBuys
Author: John B. Marshall
Author: Vance Gortman