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| Coronado's Children : Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
ISBN: 9780292749245
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Texas Press
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Subjects: History;
"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
J. Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas on September 26, 1888. He graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas in 1910 and received his master's degree from Columbia University. He became an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist. He wrote numerous books depicting life in rural Texas including A Vaquero of the Brush Country, On the Open Range, Tongues of the Monte, The Voice of the Coyote, Tales of Old Time Texas, I'll Tell You a Tale, and Cow People. Coronado's Children won the Literary Guild Award in 1931. On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the Medal of Freedom. He died four days later on September 18, 1964. (Bowker Author Biography) |
