Coronado's Children Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

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.... l 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.

About the author

By J. Frank Dobie

Summary

Texas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of the lost mines of the San Saba and Llano rivers, rumors of an untapped vein of wonderfully rich gold west of Paisano Pass in Devil's River country, tales of forgotten posthole stashe

Product details

• Assisted by: Charles Shaw (Illustration), Frank H. Wardlaw (Editor)
• Authors: J. Frank Dobie
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.11.1978
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780292710528
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71052-8
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.6 x 2.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 426 g
• Series: Barker Texas History Center Se > 0003; The J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library; Barker Texas History Center Series; The J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library; Barker Texas History Center Series