Description
Book SynopsisTexas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of lost mines and forgotten stashes of coin.
Trade ReviewAs 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 *
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 *
Table of Contents
- "The Precious Ability to Wonder"
- In the Beginning
- 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
- 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
- III. The Facts About Fort Ramõrez
- 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
- V. Tales Of The Cow Camp
- The Rider of Loma Escondida
- Bumblebees and Skilitons
- The Measure of a Wagon Rod
- VI. Post Hole Banks
- VII. Midas On A Goatskin
- VIII. The Lost Nigger Mine
- IX. On West
- The Engineer's Ledge
- The Lost Padre Mine
- X. Los Muertos No Hablan
- XI. The Challenge of the Desert
- Nuggets in the Sand
- The Breyfogle Mine
- Yuma's Gold
- 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
- XIII. The Pecos Barricade
- Maximilian's Gold
- Rattlesnake Cave on the Pecos
- The Fateful Opals
- XIV. The Secret of the Guadalupes
- XV. Not Only Gold and Silver
- The Foxes Have Holes
- Precious Lead
- Copper on the Brazos
- XVI. Sartin for Sure
- Moro's Gold
- The Mystery of the Palo Duro
- XVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas
- In a Chicken's Craw
- The James Boys' Loot
- Devil's Canyon
- The Pothole of Nuggets
- XVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty
- The Man of Mystery
- The Legends
- XIX. Shadows And Symbols
- Notes
- Glossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest
