Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest [Paperback]

Eugene L. Conrotto (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1996

Handy guide to the long-lost mines, rich veins of ore, silver lodes, buried treasure, and other bonanzas. All fully described, including fascinating anecdotes about the treasure, its general locale and other information. Each description also accompanied by a map of the region. 96 maps and over 50 other line illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Dover ed edition (October 10, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486292754
• ISBN-13: 978-0486292755
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Author seeks imput, September 4, 1999

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This review is from: Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest (Paperback)

I wrote the original book in 1963 (as Lost Desert Bonanzas) to mark 25 years of Desert Magazine lost mine stories. The main appeal was Norton Allen's great cartography (this is the only kind of map book that gets better as the maps are outdated by freeways and etc.). I would like input from treasure-seekers, but all I know about the particular lost mines is recounted in the book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, August 25, 2008

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Seronac Rich "Seronac" (Orem, UT USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest (Paperback)

This book has some really interesting stories about the Southwest, but I wish is had more detail about the locations of starting points and landmarks. Obviously, it discusses *lost* places and things, but it would help to have a better, more detailed and up-to-date description of where to start looking for them.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You don't need to be a treasure-hunter, September 17, 2003

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Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest (Paperback)

This is a good read just to fire the imagination on a cold winter night. It's also a good one to get filled with bookmarks, margin notes, dog-ears, and fingerprints on the bookshelves of serious treasure-hunters. Buy it.