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Colorado’s Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure by Caroline Bancroft
Colorados Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure by Caroline Bancroft assisted by Agnes Nafziger
Soft Cover
56 pages
Copyright 1961, 12th printing 1983
CONTENTS
COLORADO PLACINGTALEPAGE
SECTION 1-A Unprofitable Murder 7
SECTION 2-A Caught by the Glitter 9
Trapper's Treasure 11
Lost Pitchblende Mine 13
Grand Lake Treasure 13
Snowslide of Slate Mountain 15
Lost Mine of Big Baldy17
Lost Mine of Lost Man Gulch 18
Into Thin Air18
The Reynolds' Bandit Treasure 20
Jesse James' Loot 47
SECTION 3-A Cache La Poudre Lost Mine23
Hicks Mountain 25
Lost Mine of Stevens Gulch 27
Devil's Head Stands Guard 28
Illusive Topaz Jewels 29
SECTION 4-A The Third Gravestone 31
SECTION 1-B Pillars of Gold33
Navaho Curse 34
Treasure Mountain 35
SECTION 2-B Murdie's Lost Gold Mine38
Mysterious Gold of Juan Carlos 39
The Cavern of the Skulls 40
Caverna del Oro of Marble Mountain 43
SECTION 3-B Letter in the Wallet44
The Phantom Auto 47
Arapaho Princess Treasure49
Prospector's Return52
Treasure in Trinchera Creek 53
SECTION 4-B Treasure of the Strange Wagon55
PERSONAL TO THE READER
My father, George Jarvis Bancroft, was a consulting engineer. He held degrees both in mining and in civil engineering, particularly reclamation of the latter division. In the early 1900's he was very successful, and his fees more than sustained a living for his young wife and two daughters.
But the Panic of 1907 caused a number of his Eastern clients to withdraw both their interest and their investments in the West. He found it harder and harder to make a living at his chosen profession, especially as Colorado mining became slower and more restricted. By 1913 the family finances were a matter for real concern.
Father decided to accept a regular job and became editor of the Mining and Industrial page of the Rocky Mountain News, a page crammed with hard facts and my father's brilliant reports.
In 1914 he decided to try to liven the page with human interest, and he thought of the idea of running Lost Mine stories. Naturally he knew dozens, as he had mined throughout the West, Mexico and Australia. One of the new department's most avid readers was the editor's sixth-grade daughter, Caroline.
Many year later, in 1929, when I was editor of a literary page on The Denver Post, I thought I would like to write a book about the West. I remembered Father's Lost Mine stories and started to collect them on my own. But the next year J. Frank Dobie published Coronado's Children, an immediate best-seller. I decided I had been scooped.
Yet my interest in folklore continued. From 1941 through 1955 I was one of the sponsors for the Western Folklore Conference, headed by Levette J. Davidson and held each July on the University of Denver campus. Every summer I gave a paper on some phase of Colorado folklore.
One of my papers was Lost Mine Legends of Colorado. It was read during the summer of 1943 and published the following October in the California (now Western) Folklore Quarterly. As a scholarly resume of the subject, this article still stands alone, and I recommend a reading at the library for anyone interested in a detached approach.
What is offered here in this booklet is the credulous point of view, a culling of thirty of my collection, told as they might be around a camp fire for entertainment's sake. I have been assisted in the writing by Agnes Nafziger, short story writer with many years of training in the narrative technique.
We hope they divert you as much as they entertained us while preparing the stories for publication.
Caroline Bancroft President, 1955-61 Colorado Folklore Society
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