1931, Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest, Gold, Silver, Copper, sold Mines, Illustrated

We are pleased to offer the following title: CORONADO'S CHILDREN : Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest. Authored by James Frank Dobie, and published by the Literary Guild in 1931. A collection of wealth-pursuing tales of the American Frontier by folklorist James Frank Dobie (1888-1964). Book's title inspired by explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's (1510-1554) search for the legendary Seven Cities of Cíbola for the Spanish Crown. Riches eluded him, but Dobie shows his dream of treasurers "never died". This book is about his heirs: Inheritors of dreams of riches waiting to be taken, wealth waiting to be claimed, and hidden treasures waiting to be unearthed. sold It is the story of soldiers of fortune who paved the roads to the America West. 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. Contains 6 black-and-white illustrations and 5 maps, as well as the end paper maps. 6-1/2" x 9-1/2", 367 pps