Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J.
Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national
prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of
those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest
following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard
Coronado.
These people, Dobie writes in his introduction, no
matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado's inheritors.... l
have called them Coronado's children. They follow Spanish trails,
buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but
oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of
lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load...
This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Lost San Saba Mine - The Magic Circle on Packsaddle, Yellow Wolf, Three Suns West, Beasley's Cavern
II. Down the Nueces - Witching for silver, mysteries of San Casimiro, El Tigre, Where Parallel Lines Intersect, Casa Blanca
III. The Facts About Fort Ramirez
IV. The Circumstances of War - Relics of De Soto, The Stuffed Cannon of the Neches, Santa Anna's Chests, Palo Alto and Resaca de La Palma
V. Tales of the Cow Camp - The Rider of Loma Escondida, Bumblebees and Skilitons, The Measure of a Wagon Rod
V. Post Hole Banks
VI. Midas on a Goatskin and more...
CONDITION: Hard Cover, First Edition, 1931, no DJ, previous owner address label and stamp inside front and back covers. 6 illustrative plates by Ben Carlton Mead, 6 maps and charts, and at the end of each chapter is a pen-and-ink sketch. 367 pages including glossary.
