Coronados Children : Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

English

Series: Barker Texas History Center Ser.

Volume: 3

ISBN: 0292710526

EAN: 9780292710528

Category: Social Science / Folklore & Mythology/History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, Nm, Ok, Tx)/Travel / Special Interest / Adventure/Technology & Engineering / Mining/

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Release Date: 01/31/1978

Synopsis: Written in 1930,Coronados Childrenwas one of J. Frank Dobies 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 Coronados inheritors.... l have called them Coronados 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.

Coronados Children : Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.89 inches

Width: 5.95 inches

Length: 8.97 inches

Weight: 19.75 oz

Pages: 351