Apache Gold & Yaqui Silver 

J. Frank Dobie & Tom Lea SIGNED 

1939 1st Edition!

 

Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver by J. Frank Dobie.  Little Brown: Boston (1939).  SIGNED by the legendary Texas historian and folklorist J. Frank Dobie AND by artist/illustrator Tom Lea!  Quite scarce thus!  First edition 1^st printing, hardcover in pictorial boards and dust jacket, 366 pages.  Illustrated with color frontispiece, color plates as well as black & white illustrations by Tom Lea, one of the Southwest’s finest artists. 

The classic on the lost mines of the Old West!  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! In this masterful collection of horrifying tales, Dobie introduces us 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, then lost, but never forgotten. Are the treasures really there? Searchers still seek them. But for the reader, the treasure is here, because Dobie's tales are guaranteed pure gold! 

Native Americans, Indians of North America, mining and miners, silver and gold.  Old Wild West, Western Americana, outlaws and lawmen. 

Book good condition, corners and edges rubbed, hinges starting, previous owner’s name.  Dust jacket good, chipped and edgeworn, torn down creases, center of spine panel missing.

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