Description
Very Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, picturing man in desert with donkey, advertising on the rear cover price-clipped. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Black-and-white illustrations by Ben Carlton Mead.
About the book: (From the dust jacket)
LOST MINES of the OLD WEST: CORONADO’s CHILDREN J. FRANK DOBIE: More thrilling than any fictitious adventure tale is this true story of those who, for four centuries, have sought treasure in the fabulous lost mines of the South-west of America. Told with vigor, gusto and authority, it is a fascinating saga of the lengths to which man will go in his search for gold.
This fascinating cavalcade of the South-west, from the time of Coronado down to today, presents a thousand exciting incidents in which pirates, outlaws, cowboys, rangers, miners, preachers, doctors, farmers, and gold-thirsty women, all play their parts. Generations of men have disemboweled mountains, drained lakes and turned rivers out of their courses; countless lives have been lost and unbelievable hardships endured-all in search of gold.
In this book they pass before the reader in thrilling procession-gold-hungry adventurers, hoping, believing, striving, fighting-the mad horde of Coronado’s children.
