J. Frank Dobie

Coronado's Children

Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

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Produktbeschreibung

Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. "These people," Dobie writes in his introduction, "no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado's inheritors.... l have called them Coronado's children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load... " This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1978
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780292710528
• ISBN-10: 0292710526
• Artikelnr.: 21152912

Autorenporträt

By J. Frank Dobie

Inhaltsangabe

1. "The Precious Ability to Wonder"
2. In the Beginning
3. I. The Lost San Saba Mine
* Miranda's Report
* The Filibusters
* Bowie's Secret
* In the Burned Cedar Brake
* Yellow Wolf: "Three Suns West"
* Captive Witnesses
* Beasley's Cavern
* Pebbles of Gold
* The Magic Circle on Packsaddle
* Aurelio's Trunk
* The Relic
* The Pictured Copper Plates
* An Innocent Old Liar
* The Broken Metate
4. II. Down The Nueces
* General Baylor's Assay
* Espantosa Lake
* Witching for Silver
* The Gold That Turned to Carbón
* Mysteries of the San Casimiro
* El Tigre
* The Rock Pens
* Where Parallel Lines Intersect
* Casa Blanca
5. III. The Facts About Fort Ramõrez
6. IV. The Circumstance Of War
* Relics of De Soto
* The Stuffed Cannon of the Neches
* Santa Anna's Chests
* Palo Alto and Resaca de La Palma
* Steinheimer's Millions
7. V. Tales Of The Cow Camp
* The Rider of Loma Escondida
* Bumblebees and Skilitons
* The Measure of a Wagon Rod
8. VI. Post Hole Banks
9. VII. Midas On A Goatskin
10. VIII. The Lost Nigger Mine
11. IX. On West
* The Engineer's Ledge
* The Lost Padre Mine
12. X. Los Muertos No Hablan
13. XI. The Challenge of the Desert
* Nuggets in the Sand
* The Breyfogle Mine
* Yuma's Gold
14. XII. In The Sunshine of the Pecos
* Bewitched Sand
* El Macho
* La Mina Perdida
* That Ole Man Devil
* The Montezuma of the Pecos
* José Vaca's Cave
* José's One Lucky Find
15. XIII. The Pecos Barricade
* Maximilian's Gold
* Rattlesnake Cave on the Pecos
* The Fateful Opals
16. XIV. The Secret of the Guadalupes
17. XV. Not Only Gold and Silver
* The Foxes Have Holes
* Precious Lead
* Copper on the Brazos
18. XVI. Sartin for Sure
* Moro's Gold
* The Mystery of the Palo Duro
19. XVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas
* In a Chicken's Craw
* The James Boys' Loot
* Devil's Canyon
* The Pothole of Nuggets
20. XVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty
* The Man of Mystery
* The Legends
21. XIX. Shadows And Symbols
22. Notes
23. Glossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest