Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver

by J. Frank Dobie

Overview

Are treasures really there? Searchers still seek them. But for the reader, the treasure is here—Dobie's tales are pure gold.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316187916
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	01/30/1939
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

Table of Contents

• Introductory: The Trail of a Story Hunter
• The Lost Adams Diggings
  • I. Enough Gold to Load a Pack Horse
  • II. "The Apaches Made Me Forget"
  • III. The Man Who Was Not Dead
  • IV. The German
  • V. The Man Who Knows
  • VI. Where the Gleam Led Captain Cooney
  • VII. Hounded Hunters
  • VIII. The Malpais and Some Maybes
  • IX. The Indian's Secret
• Sierra Madre and Bronze Guards
• The Lost Tayopa Mine
  • I. Camino Real of Silver Pack Trains
  • II. Eight Days Towards the Sunset
  • III. Under the Mesa of the Bell-Maker
  • IV. "Tayopa Is Here"
  • V. "Can You Read Shadder Writing?"
• Scalp Hunters' Ledge
• El Naranjal Pedro Loco
• Not the Will of God
• General Mexhuira's Ghost
• Appendix
  • I. Where I Dug for Adams Gold
  • II. A Note on Scalp Hunters in Mexico