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Genre/Form: | Anecdotes History Local history |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jameson, W.C., 1942- Lost treasures of American history. Lanham : Taylor Trade Pub. : Distributed by National Book Network, 2006 (OCoLC)652351299 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
W C Jameson |
ISBN: | 1589792890 9781589792890 |
OCLC Number: | 65207024 |
Description: | vi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Lost Spanish treasure ship in the California desert -- Lost Spanish gold mine on the Cossatot -- Lost gold mine in the Uintah Mountains -- The lost Padre Mine -- The Victorio Peak treasure -- Lost Spanish treasure in the Lava Beds -- Lost Spanish treasure ship on Barkentine Creek -- Colonial America. Rogers' rangers and the lost silver Madonna -- Benedict Arnold's lost revolutionary war treasure -- Lost gold payroll -- The lost treasure of the Marquis de Lafayette -- The George Washington dollars -- The sunken continental dollars -- The lost treasure of the H.M.S. Hussar -- Civil War. Morehead City's Confederate treasure -- The lost treasure of the Confederate Army's gray ghost -- A fortune in Confederate silver -- Confederate treasure in Vermont -- Pots of gold -- The lost Confederate treasury -- Outlaw treasure. The lost treasure of Pedro Nevarez -- Jean Laffite's Galveston treasure -- Outlaw Plummer's lost gold -- The Sam Bass treasure -- Black Jack Christian's lost train robbery gold -- Tiburcio Vasquez's 500-pound silver ingot -- The lost iron door treasure of the Outlaw Belle Starr -- Multimillion dollar gangster treasure. |
Responsibility: | W.C. Jameson. |
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Abstract:
Ties stories of adventurous treasure hunting to American history. This work relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, and the settling of the West.
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