The Lost Dutchman Mine

The story of the “Lost Dutchman’s Mine” in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona is one of the most controversial prospector myths of the late nineteenth century. The hardest part of studying the lost mine is separating fact from fiction; ironically, tales have been so entwined over the past hundred years it is almost impossible to distinguish the truth from the legend that follows. It is told a prospector named Jacob Waltz had a rich …showed first 75 words of 710 total…

…showed last 75 words of 710 total…a cow barn; from my mine you can see a military trail, but from the military trail, you cannot see my mine.” “There is a trick in the trail of my mine and there is a face on the trail to my mine.” These and many other clues have fired the imaginations of men and women for over a century. Unfortunately, the hidden treasures of the wilderness area will probably remain a mystery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**