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Throughout history, the state of Missouri has served as a setting
for a vast array of exciting legend and lore. Within the pages of
this book, W.C. Jameson presents the most complete collection of
the Show Me State's tales of lost mines and buried treasures. With
his gift for storytelling, Jameson relates episodes from the time
of Indian occupation through early settlement, the Civil War, to
the present. As a legendary professional treasure hunter, Jameson
has followed the trails of many of these lost mines and buried
treasures.
What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging
down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West’s most famous
outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the
thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses
at the authorities, and getting away with their crimes more often
than not. These men, and at least one woman, were dare devils, rule
breakers, adventurers, and rebels. In addition to their train
robberies, they led colorful, dramatic, and dangerous lives. The
Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and their Historic Heists
profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along
with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics
of each of their train robberies—planning, execution, and
escape—are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background
information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as
what became of them following their train robbery days.
Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines,
buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The
famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a
century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed
Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Gold and silver bars
discovered in Huachuca Canyon by a soldier stationed at nearby Fort
Huachuca just before World War II remain inaccessible despite years
of laborious attempts at recovery. Outside the town of Yucca,
bandits eager to make a fast getaway buried a strongbox filled with
gold, unaware they wouldn't survive the pursuit of a law-enforcing
posse to recover their plunder. And somewhere in the Little Horn
Mountains northeast of Yuma lies an elusive wash containing
hundreds of odd gold-filled rocks. Selected from hundreds of tales
passed down from generation to generation since the days of the
gold-seeking Spanish explorers, the tales included here are among
the most compelling that Arizona has to offer.
From the Guadalupe Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert to the Hill
Country to the Red River, the vast landscape of Texas has afforded
the cultural depth and diversity to inspire its writers. The
richness of Texas folklore, history, and traditions has left an
unmistakable mark on the art of the region. Both native and
transplant Texas writers alike have been keenly shaped by the
distinctive aroma of fresh corn tortillas, tales of Mescalero
Apaches, and Tejano and ranchera music.W.C. Jameson has compiled an
assorted collection of fourteen essays by some of the most
prominent Texas writers through which he hopes to explore the
following questions: How did they accomplish their goals? Why did
they choose the writing life? What influence did the history, lore,
and culture of Texas play in their creative process? While readily
citing the ""decidedly Texas flavor"" in his own fiction, Jameson
seeks to uncover the inspirations in other writers from both the
expansive and rugged Texas terrain as well as the varied people
therein.The fourteen writers who comprise ""Notes from Texas""
range from the captivating and often humorous essayist Larry L.
King to the beloved historical novelist Elmer Kelton. Other
contributors include James Ward Lee, known for his expertise in
Texas cuisine and culture, and poet and songwriter Red Steagall.
This collection bestows each with a ""chance to express what they
wished to share about their art and their life as a Texas writer.
This well-researched book is a biography of the life-and
disappearance-of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the
first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's
plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely
different?
This well-researched biography of the life and controversial death
of Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy, is a journey across
the late-nineteenth-century American West as we follow Cassidy s
exploits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where he made his name as
a surprisingly affable outlaw. More important, this book answers
the question: Did Butch Cassidy, noted outlaw of the American West,
survive his alleged death at the hands of Bolivian soldiers in 1908
and return to friends and family in the United States? The evidence
suggesting he did is impressive and not easily dismissed, but how
he lived and what identity he assumed are still debated."
Tennessee's tales of treasure come from a multitude of sources:
Indians mining silver for jewelry and ornaments, outlaws burying
stolen loot, lost and hidden Civil War payrolls, personal wealth
buried and never to be retrieved, and much more. Many attempted to
find the lost mines and buried treasures. A number of them
succeeded, but many more remain to be found.
The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost
treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made
entirely of silver (the "Madonna") and a cache of gold, silver, and
jewelry that was rumored to also contain the first Bible in America
to seventeen tons of gold-its value equal to the treasury of a
mid-sized nation-buried somewhere in northwestern New Mexico. What
makes these tales even more compelling is that none of these
known-to-be-lost treasures have been discovered, although modern
detecting technology has made them eminently discoverable.
Two subjects continue to fascinate people-the Old West and a good
mystery. This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old
West's most baffling mysteries, which lure the curious and beg for
investigation even though their solutions have eluded experts for
decades. Many relate to the death or disappearance of some of the
best-known lawmen and outlaws in history, such as Billy the Kid,
Buckskin Frank Leslie, John Wilkes Booth, The Catalina Kid, and
Butch Cassidy. Others involve mysterious tales and legends of lost
mines and buried treasures that have not been recovered-yet.
The numerous tales and legends related to lost mines and buried
treasures in Oklahoma are often supported by documentation. The
stories included in this book are most compelling because they
offer chances of recovery. Though obscured by the passage of many
decades since they were originally hidden or lost, these elusive
treasures nevertheless continue to tempt the adventurous, the
committed, the passionate.
Carlos, a young man who has grown up near El Paso, Texas, succumbs
to the allure of Mexico and crosses the Rio Grande to embark on a
mythic journey. Bearing the scars of a cruel childhood, Carlos is
eager to escape the United States, a country he finds insipid,
inauthentic, and hypocritical. In contrast, the northern Mexico
countryside offers him a chaotic reality in which he battles a
gigantic foe in a boxing match, eats snakes, and befriends a
hunchbacked dwarf who tells tales of brutality and revolution in
Carlos' newly adopted homeland. It is from this dwarf that Carlos
learns of Chavez, guerilla champion of the oppressed who is engaged
in a battle of attrition and vengeance against the militia henchmen
of Joaquin Mueller, a land- and power-hungry hacendado. Carlos
joins the outlaw Chavez and his band of men in their struggle
against Mueller. It is a struggle that will overwhelm Carlos with
death and loss, setting him on a path for revenge of his own.
""When the dreams come I taste the dust, the dry, swirling Mexican
earth kicked up by galloping horses and running men.
The dusty trails heading west of the Mississippi provided intrigue,
adventure, and danger for the men and women who set out in search
of a new life and fortune. Outlaws along with pioneers and
forty-niners traveled this frontier often, finding and losing
riches along the way. The Great Plains region loaded with history
from native Americans, Spanish explorers, and Mexican, German, and
Scots-Irish settlers holds some of the country's most promising
finds for buried treasure.
All along the Atlantic Coast lie tales of zealous pirates,
unfortunate shipwrecks, and cryptic maps discovered in musty
attics. From Maine to Florida, W.C. Jameson chronicles more than
thirty stories of lost riches and forgotten stashes in this ninth
book of his Buried Treasures series. Although some treasure has
been discovered over the years, many relics of the past still
remain hidden, awaiting someone with the luck and perseverance to
discover them.
In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians
left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history,
starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and
times of Billy the Kid. Cold Case: Billy the Kid tackles the myths
and legends about the misadventures and eventual killing of the
notorious outlaw one by one, considering the evidence surrounding
his life, death, and crimes from contemporary sources and looking
at the physical evidence still extant today to consider the
veracity of historical claims and considering the evidence through
the lens of a legal investigation. In this first book, the writers
tackle the evolution of an outlaw in myth and lore, claiming that
Billy the Kid as a notorious outlaw is a manufactured concept. They
offer evidence that the Kid was little more than one of several
small time cattle and horse thieves whose rustling netted him only
a small amount of intermittent income. He killed no fewer, and
probably no more, than four or five men. For the most part he
worked on ranches, notably those of John Chisum and John Henry
Tunstall. The Kid, as a cattle thief, was known to many in southern
New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, along with a number of other
troublesome rustlers.
W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty
years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs,
been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods,
been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with rattlesnakes,
water moccasins, scorpions, and poisonous centipedes. He has fled
for his life from park rangers, policemen, landowners, competitors,
corporate mercenaries, and drug runners. He has also discovered
enough treasure to pay for his own house and finance his and his
children's education. With his enigmatic treasure-hunter partners,
Slade, Stanley, and Poet, Jameson's stories are worthy of an
Indiana Jones film-except that they are all true.
Join the Search for Lost Treasure First popularized by folklorist
and author J. Frank Dobie in his book Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
in 1928, the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings is one of the most
mythologized tales of lost treasure on the continent. In the 1860s,
Gold was taken from Adams' canyon in enormous quantities, with
nuggets ranging from dust-size to some as large as hen's eggs, all
being plucked from the bottom of a shallow stream. This true story
of the Lost Adams Diggings starts with the discovery of the rich
deposit of gold in a remote mountain range, and ends with the
author's own story of search and discovery in the twentieth
century.
When it comes to historical mysteries, Texas offers numerous
long-perplexing conundrums for readers. Several of the Lone Star
state's enduring legends are associated with historical figures
including Davy Crockett, Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, the
outlaws Sam Bass and Bill Longley, and the pirate Jean Lafitte.
Lost mines and buried treasures are also a long-standing part of
Texas history and lore, and the location of several of these riches
has baffled searches for well over a century. Searches for these
elusive treasures, represented by gold and silver ingots and coins,
have ranged from Texas' mountain ranges to the prairies to the
coast, and continue to this day. Texas may also have been the site
of several "lost civilizations. Growing evidence suggests that
Mayans, a culture long associated with southern Mexican and Central
America may have established settlements in the state after having
disappeared from their homeland. The Caddo Mounds spread out over a
large section of southeast Texas represent what amounted of a city
that was once inhabited by thousands of natives. The questions of
where they came from and what became of them continue to intrigue
researchers. This lively, easy-to-read book will cover these and
many other mysterious happenings and will be popular with residents
and tourists.
From the late 1870s to mid-1880s, Tombstone, Arizona, enjoyed
impressive growth and prosperity as a result of the discovery of
major silver deposits nearby. As in many boomtowns in the American
West, its sudden prosperity attracted businessmen, outlaws,
grifters, gamblers, prostitutes, and preachers. It wasn't long
before there was a desperate need for lawmen and law enforcement.
Outlaws like Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Buckskin Frank
Leslie, Burt Alvord, and a handful of other lesser known criminals,
all faced off with the legendary lawmen, including the Earp
brothers--Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and Warren--who to one degree or
another represented law enforcement in this wild, no-holds-barred
town. In addition to Tombstone's reputation as a setting for
colorful outlaw-lawman confrontations, it is also associated with a
number of compelling and baffling mysteries. Ghosts are reported to
roam the old taverns, hotels, opera houses, and other buildings.
Eerie and unexplainable sounds and sights have been associated with
Boot Hill, the famous cemetery, as well as the New City Cemetery.
Cold Case: The Tombstone Mysteries investigates the real stories
behind the mysteries, including unsolved crimes that await a
solution. These old west cold cases continue to attract researchers
and investigators to the town too tough to die.
Investigating History's Mysteries The assassination of Sheriff Pat
Garrett, one of the most notorious lawmen of the American West,
remained one of the most puzzling and perplexing unsolved mysteries
for more than a century. As a result of sophisticated forensic
analysis of the historical crime scene, as well as the discovery of
new evidence, the mystery has been solved. Most know Pat Garrett as
the self-proclaimed slayer of the outlaw, Billy the Kid, on the
night of July 14, 1881, in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The event
propelled Garrett into regional and national headlines and
generated a momentum that led the lawman to consider seeking higher
political offices. Garrett's plans were thwarted by his
self-destructiveness, however. In spite of his notoriety, he was a
bumbling lawman, a debtor, an alcoholic, an adulterer, and addicted
to gambling. After being removed from his position as sheriff, he
retired to a ranch in Uvalde, Texas, only to be summoned back to
New Mexico to investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert
Jennings Fountain. In this pursuit, he failed once again. Garrett's
downward spiral created a sense of desperation in the lawman, and
his continuing difficulties caused him to lose what few friends he
had and generate numerous enemies. In time, his enemies had had
enough of him and decided he had to go.
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Slaughter (Hardcover)
Elmer Kelton; Afterword by W. C Jameson
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R909
R757
Discovery Miles 7 570
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In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas.
The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave
them shelter and clothing, food and weapons. The battles at and
near the ruins of a trading fort, Adobe Walls, became symbolic of
the struggles between hunters and the Comanche.In this aptly titled
novel, Texas novelist Elmer Kelton shows his uncanny ability to
present both sides of a clash between cultures. With a firm grasp
of Comanche life, Kelton presents The People as very human and very
threatened. Equally clear is the picture of Anglos found on the
high plains in those days - Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and
now a fugitive; Nigel Smithwick, an English ""second son"" and
gambler; Arletta, the lone woman among these men (one woman was at
Adobe Walls).
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