| Edition |
1st Taylor Trade Publishing ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Treasure troves -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Mines and mineral resources -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- History, Local -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- Antiquities -- Anecdotes.
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Mines and mineral resources -- United States -- History.
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Treasure troves -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Antiquities.
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United States -- History.
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United States -- History, Local.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
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Mines and mineral resources. (OCoLC)fst01022541
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Treasure troves. (OCoLC)fst01431639
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jameson, W.C., 1942- Lost treasures of American history. 1st Taylor Trade Publishing ed. Lanham : Taylor Trade Pub. : Distributed by National Book Network, 2006 1589792890 (DLC) 2006008302 (OCoLC)65207024 |
| ISBN |
9781589796324 (electronic bk.) |
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1589796322 (electronic bk.) |
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