Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barker Texas History Center Series)

By: J. Frank Dobie

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Synopsis: &“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 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 . . . I 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. &“As 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