Research Catalog

Title

Lone Star lost : buried treasures in Texas / by Patrick Dearen.

Author

Dearen, Patrick

Publication

Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

ix, 83 p. : ill. (some col.); 18 cm.

Summary

Patrick Dearen went in search of buried treasures, not gold or silver or jewels, but untapped tales worthy of J. Frank Dobie. And he found for "Lone Star Lost" ten such stories that spring from the bedrock, shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is our Texas heritage. These stories grew from the land - the Texas soil that gives birth to history and sprinkles it with legend. From the piney woods on the east to the Chihuahuan Desert on the west, from the subtropical marshes on the south to the mountains on the north, Texas is alive with the kind of wonder that has sent men in quest of their own Cibolas for generations.

Series Statement

Texas small book

Uniform Title

Texas small book.

Subject

• Treasure troves > Texas
• Texas > Antiquities
• Texas > History, Local > Anecdotes
• Texas > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Anecdotes
• Local history
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 81).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A treasure bewitched -- Outlaw gold on the San Gabriel -- Comanche jewels -- Seven haunted jack loads -- The golden hoard of Joseph Simpkins -- The gold of the besieged -- The golden calf -- A ball of silver -- Blood money on the South Plains -- The Santiago Peak cache -- Where I dug for buried treasure.

ISBN

• 9780875653921 (lithocase : alk. paper)
• 0875653928 (lithocase : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008036395

OCLC

244481663

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library