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Horns and Lost Gold by Mike Cox 5-30-12
For
a time in the 1920s and ‘30s, a Southerner who got to Texas as soon as he could
reigned as Texas’ “Horn King.” Plunder
In The Pines by
Dana Goolsby 7-11-11
Just beneath the surface
of the Pineywoods, buried treasure is said to be scattered. One of the many fortunes
left behind is believed to be in southern Anderson County. Mexican gold bars,
gold coins and jewels have eluded treasure hunters for well over a century, but
some still believe there is buried treasure in Elkhart, Texas. The
Sword in the Tree by Mike Cox 1-27-11
The
story Todd heard as a kid is classic folklore: A Spanish mule train laden with
gold coins from Mexico is shadowed by Indians. Desperate to lighten their load
and escape attack, the teamsters bury all the gold on the bank of a stream that
would come to be called Walnut Creek.A
Hero Named Tom by C. F. Eckhardt 12-1-10
We don’t
know much about Tom’s background, because Tom was a slave. He belonged to William
Snyder, a plantation owner in East Texas... James Adams, Lucien Daly, and Snyder
set out from San Antonio for the Big Bend country in the early summer of 1852.
They were hunting what most men who went into the Big Bend country before 1865
were hunting—gold... Hughes
Springs and Trammell’s Treasure by Mike Cox 10-21-10
More
than 300 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, the community of Hughes Springs
owes its existence to a fanciful pirate story and one man who believed it. Looking
for hidden treasures by Bob Bowman 8-8-10
Fortune-hunters
have been searching for buried and hidden riches for as long as there has been
a Texas. The Spanish often hauled silver and gold bars, coins, and jewelry long
distances to reach their destination, but often without success and the occasional
loss of life.
Gold is in men's
hearts, not mountains by Britt Towery 4-14-10
The
Catalinas are between our home in the copper company town of San Manuel and the
ever-exciting historical city of Tucson. These mountains are not known for ghost
or lost gold mines, but the earliest visitors sure looked for it from time to
time... Jean
Laffite by Clay Coppedge
1-1-10
Before Texas
was known as a haven for Old West outlaws it was a haven for pirates... Laffite
was the best known and casts the longest shadow across Texas history... Ranger
Silver by Mike Cox 6-18-09
Most treasure stories
lack any physical evidence, but in this case, there are traces of the mine...The
Snively Expedition by C. F. Eckhardt 5-29-09
Jacob
Snively was either a con-man, a fool, or probably the unluckiest man on earth.
It’s hard to tell which. He claimed to be a mining man who’d prospected the Sierra
Madres. He also claimed he’d found one of the richest gold mines on the continent
in the mountains below El Paso, on the Texas side of the Rio Grande... Joe
Pruno by Mike Cox 5-14-09
The story of Joe A. Pruno
reads like a Victorian-era dime novel, complete with ample exaggeration, outright
fabrication and historical inaccuracies... . [He] was buried in the town’s Catholic
cemetery. If he ever had a tombstone, it has not been located. Neither has his
treasure. Steamship
Texas Ranger by Mike Cox
In the summer of 1875, a nameless storm off the
lower Texas coast battered a vessel with a famous name. She was the Texas Ranger,
a coastwise steamboat.Steamship
Texas Ranger - 2 by Mike Cox
I wrote about this
ship with a famous name last summer, but only recently ran into some additional
information on her... O.
Henry and the Shoal Creek Treasure by C. F. Eckhardt
"...While Santa
Anna was trying to put down the Texas rebellion of 1836, two high-ranking Mexican
officers-one was, so the story goes, the paymaster, the other a high-ranking general-decided
to steal the entire payroll for the Mexican Army in Texas. They planned to bury
it in an area not frequented by white men, either from Mexico or the US, and leave
it until an opportunity arose to get out of the country with it..."
Disappearing
Cows by Mike Cox
"...But at night, especially when the moon bathed
the landscape in a light far cooler than day, the energy level rose. Not only
did the animals move, many believed that unrested souls flitted about. Strange
things were said to happen..." The
Ranger's Creek of Gold by C. F. Eckhardt
In the first chapter of what
was the treasure-hunter's bible for many years, J. Frank Dobie's CORONADO'S CHILDREN,
there is a story called "The Rangers' Creek of Gold." Dobie told this tale as
'once upon a time a long time ago in a land far away.' Yet in the story there
are, if you read it critically, enough clues to tell you what time of year it
occurred, where in Texas it occurred, approximately what year it occurred, and
the exact location of the creek of gold. Llano
Gold by Mike Cox
Washed in golden sunset, from a distance Llano County's
Sharp Mountain looks like a giant Paleolithic flint hide scraper lying on its
side. At 1,594 feet above sea level, the landmark barely deserves its mountain
designation... Few today know about the long-abandoned mine shafts the mountain
hides...The
Lost Treasure of Padre Island by Murray Montgomery
Bosque
Treasure by Mike Cox
Maybe he thought stringing law enforcements officials
along with a tale of buried treasure could save him from being strung up, but
Daniel H. Evans ran out of rope just the same. Described by one newspaper as a
“handsome young man,” the 20-year-old convicted murderer-robber left behind “respectable
connections in Tennessee, Missouri and Texas” as well as a long forgotten legend
of hidden loot.
Cartoons by Roger T. Moore:Spanish
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