Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barker Texas History Center Series Book 3)

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“This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas.” —Basic Texas Books
 
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 . . . I 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.
 
“As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays.” —The New York Times
 
“Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night.” —Chicago Evening Post
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CBVSLL6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 24, 2022
Edition ‏ : ‎ Revised ed.
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6.0 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780292789401
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0292789401
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #197,037 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #20 in Haunted & Unexplained Travel #81 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History (Kindle Store) #86 in West South Central United States Travel Books
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