Apache Gold And Yaqui Silver

J. FRANK DOBIE

Publication: Little, Brown, and Company, 1939, Boston

First Trade edition. 8vo, Inscribed by Dobie on the front free fly leaf and signed and dated in the year of publication : "Inscribed for my friend --- --- who is hoping to make Texas more beautiful - Frank Dobie, Austin, Texas, Sept. 14, 1939." Original black and gilt stamped brown cloth, colored frontispiece, 12 plates (4 are in color), and numerous illustrations by Tom Lea, appendix, 366 pp.

"Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. A collection of tales, introducing the reader to Pedro Loco, General Mexhuira's ghost, the German, and a colorful group of odd fellows driven to roam the hills in an eternal quest for the hidden entrance, the blazed tree, the box canyon, for fabulous wealth glimpsed, lost, and never forgotten." SIX GUNS 599 says "Fascinating book on lost mines...."

Front spine channel internally professionally reinforced else a good copy in a worn dust jacket with small chips, nicks, and tears to the extremities.