Coronado's Children
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Coronado's Children

Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

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Coronado's Children

Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

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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

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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780292789401
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Folklore & Mythology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. “The Precious Ability to Wonder”
  8. In the Beginning
  9. I. The Lost San Saba Mine
  10. II. Down the Nueces
  11. III. The Facts about Fort RamĂ­rez
  12. IV. The Circumstance of War
  13. V. Tales of the Cow Camp
  14. VI. Post Hole Banks
  15. VII. Midas on a Goatskin
  16. VIII. The Lost Nigger Mine
  17. IX. On West
  18. X. Los Muertos No Hablan
  19. XI. The Challenge of the Desert
  20. XII. In the Sunshine of the Pecos
  21. XIII. The Pecos Barricade
  22. XIV. The Secret of the Guadalupes
  23. XV. Not Only Gold and Silver
  24. XVI. Sartin for Sure
  25. XVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas
  26. XVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty
  27. XIX. Shadows and Symbols
  28. Notes
  29. Glossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest