This book is full of the gold of history - the facts, myths and legends of the Lost Dutchman Mine and the Superstition Mountains.

Would a sudden death of Papa bring us, his small children, out in the open or would Hitler's terrorist attack begin again? We must protect Papa. How else would we eat? There are so many children lined up against brick walls where blood still runs red. I shudder to think that could be me. Will there be betrayal or will 31528 give me a chance to live?

On the trail a mile below Weavers Needle, we scrambled across a rock ledge that blocked our view of everything beyond. Seconds later we stared into the muzzles of five rifles aimed directly at us. The men standing in front of us looked out of place on this April dayin 1962. Their clothing and appearance would have been common a hundred years earlier. We were to later learn that this was the Burns Crew. This rough bunch of characters were convinced they were on the verge of solving the hundred-year-old mystery--the location of the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. Legend has it that it was supposedly located somewhere in the rugged, deadly Superstition Mountains of Arizona.

ARIZONA HISTORY AND LEGENDS AND LORE OF THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA. THIS BOOK FOLLOWS EARLY ARIZONA TERRITORY AND JACOB WALTZ (THE DUTCHMAN) TO HIS LOST GOLD MINE.

TURN HOME, RIDER In this land, the place you leave behind might not be there when you get back. At least not the way you knew it. Tack Gentry of the G Bar, Chat Lock of Dutchman’s Flat, and Ward McQueen of the Tumbling K knew how it felt to struggle against men who were trying to take from them what they believed in. For the bad rush in when the good leave, and men will choose to fight, not just over drunken threats, gambling losses, and honor, but for land, friendships, family, and even love—a struggle magnificently captured in these eleven great stories written and handpicked by the incomparable Louis L’Amour himself.

In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan. A general Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background as well as a brief biography of De Coningh; substantial footnotes explain those terms, names, and cultural references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. Thirteen illustrations are included, as are a chronology of events, a bibliography, and an index.

Matt Snader visits some controversial archaeological sites, some of which are attributed to Vikings.