Coronado’s Children: Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie 1930 Illustrated Hardcover Historical Folklore Book

Coronado’s Children: Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie 1930 Illustrated Hardcover Historical Folklore Book

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, light edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 8.5” x 6”

—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.

From a Review… “I think just about everyone is intrigued by tales of lost gold and hidden treasures. J. Frank Dobie was one of Texas's most well-known folklorists and in this volume, originally published in 1930, he presents a number of such stories from America's desert Southwest. While many of these stories may have had their origins in actual historical events, a majority have "evolved" over the years and have been embellished by those who heard them and retold them. As the author states, many of these stories have become a part of the fabric or "soil" of a particular area or landscape.

Through reading these tales, the reader gets a good dose of Southwestern history and can easily picture what life was like in the border area in the mid- to late-19th and early 20th centuries. There is a great deal of colorful vernacular which I assume was common during those times.”

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