Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure (Bancroft Booklets) [Paperback]

Caroline Bancroft (Author), Agnes Nafziger (Collaborator)

Book Description

Series: Bancroft Booklets | Publication Date: November 1961

Thirty romantic and fabled tales of Colorado’s misplaced wealth inspire the reader to go search.

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About the Author

Caroline Bancroft wrote her master’s thesis on Central City, Colorado. She taught history and is the author of a series of Bancroft Booklets about Colorado History.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Johnson Books (November 1961)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933472161
• ISBN-13: 978-0933472167
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #848,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure, May 30, 2000

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This review is from: Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure (Bancroft Booklets) (Paperback)

This book is approximately 56 pages and filled with interesting history and short stories. I remember hearing interesting ghost/treasure stories as a child while visiting the Colorado area. I recently moved to the Colorado area, and I could not wait to obtain information and books about the area. To my surprise, this was one of the few books that I found. The stories are short and are perfect for story telling. The stories are filled with information to excite the imagination of the possibility that treasure might still be buried in the mountains that has never been retrieved. I probably won't go into the mountains looking for the treasure even though some of the descriptions are pretty clear to where it might be located. However, I think it will make a wonderful conversation piece while driving through the Colorado mountains with family members that are visiting the area. The book is clear and concise and if you are looking for some interesting stories to discuss with tourists or family members this is a great book. Once you start reading it your curiosity won't let you put it down.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure, July 29, 2010

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This review is from: Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure (Bancroft Booklets) (Paperback)

This is mostly folk lore, or is it? Great "old time" stories of lost treasure buried in the Colorado Rockies told by someone who was there to capture the heart and soul of the stories from the old timers. A treasure of its own.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing stimulates your fantasy genes like plausible stories of lost treasure, January 11, 2010

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: COLORADO'S LOST GOLD MINES & BURIED TREASURE (Paperback)

There is nothing that will tingle the adventurous side of your psyche like plausible tales of lost gold mines and buried treasure. One of the most interesting newspaper articles that I ever read was one that contained a map of the United States that pinpointed approximate locations of known lost treasures. I clipped the article, kept it in my room and fantasized for some time about going out looking for them. How a boy in his young teen years would be able to pinpoint the location of sunken Spanish treasure ships or search for a lost gold mine were difficulties that I didn't think about a great deal.
This book is a series of short stories about lost mines and the lost treasure from those mines. Like all really good stories about gold and treasure, there is some factual basis, as in actual gold, for each of them. The stories all appeared in a Colorado newspaper, the earliest in the late nineteenth century and the latest in the 1950's. They are fun to read as they really give you an excuse to let your imagination roam and extend these stories down one of many possible pathways. Any attempt to actually search for these lost mines would be extremely difficult, the terrain in most of these locations is extremely rugged so all tools and supplies would have to be packed in. That is of course why the mines remain lost after decades of searching.