The Lost Dutchman Mine. The Fabulous Story Of The Seven-Decade Search For The Hidden Treasure In The Superstition Mountains Of Arizona By Sims Ely

SIMS ELY

Publication: William Morrow and Company, 1953, New York

First edition. 12moi. Burgundy colored cloth, titles stamped in yellow on the spine, front and rear endpapers are maps of old Arizona and the locale of the Lost Dutchman Mine, [8], 178 [1] pp., author's note.

The whole, curious story is told here by a man who spent over fifty years assembling the material. And the Dutchman Mine was already legendary when Sims Ely, in company with his partner, Jim Bark, began his investigations in 1895. The search for the mine is one of high adventure, sudden death, unflagging optimism and fabulous wealth .... and it is all true! Endpaper maps and dust jacket art by Irwin "Shorty" Shope.

A great story of the American Southwest, with an ending still to be written ...... quite likely by some unknown adventurer who happens to read this book. Trivial wear to the spine ends, else fine in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners and minor nicks to the top edge of the front panel and one tiny closed tear to the bottom of the rear panel.