Lost Dutchman Goldmine

The 19th annual Dutch Hunters Rendezvous will take place November 3rd, 4th and 5th 2023 at The Dons Base camp along Peralta road in the Superstition mountains. Everyone is welcome to this event to camp or just visit. The only thing we ask is to leave your baggage at the gate and enjoy yourself. The ...

Very interesting, Thank you Thomas. I don't peek in as much as I should. Everything is always perceived as having layers like an onion. I have always believed the Lost Dutchman stories and lore are more like a piece of furniture that has been modified, sanded and painted so many times that no one ...

Barry Storm "Thunder Gods Gold" first edition with the notes of authenticity. While Storm lost all his material later he quotes Rhinehart here. In fact I believe Storm used Rhinehart as a source until his suicide and then turned to Herman. It is one of the few direct quotes we have from Rhinehart ...

The Dick Holmes story? Hmmmmmm. Which version by Dick Holmes are we referencing? Where he was alone? Or with Ida? Or with a number of others depending on the varying accounts some of which were by Dick Holmes himself. Was it at Julias house or the Bakery. Holmes claimed both in his versions. This is ...

Greetings everyone,

As everyone is aware this year is the tenth anniversary of the Dutch Hunter Rendezvous. It seems appropriate that we will be gathering on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October this fall. We will gather on the Eve of Waltz's death and break camp on the day of his burial according ...

I know of three stone circles, one is on La Barge mountain or Black mountain whichever you prefer.It is rather small. Not entirely sure of its purpose. Southwest side if I remember correctly.The other two are respectively on each of the Black Cross butte areas. One seems more modern in origin, the ...

We are less than a week out from the Rendezvous and I wanted to put a reminder out. Guest speakers will be Saturday evening after sunset and everyone's finished with their meals. Anyone interested and has something they would want to share involving any research, stories, etc..just contact me and we ...

Will be a little cool in the mornings, but the afternoon can't be beat. It can get into the teens early in the morning back in the mountains, so dress appropriate.

It is one and the same. There are some pictures of it from a news article about linesba's work on his claims. It was by the Peralta trailhead. I believe he added to an existing structure there.

Pets are allowed in camp. Horses kept in upper camp/parking lot. We do ask no pets during the saturday evening event at the ramada. Both boys are coming out this year. They have early release, so I should be in earlier than usual.

Jake isn't doing too well, he is lame on one of his back legs, so ...

The problem is you could spend a day or days, just scouring a single ravine. Some areas could be foot by foot and there are areas that would require ropes and a lot of cliffing out and back tracking. Just taking the trails you can cover a lot of ground in a day or even hours, but if you go off trail ...

Armchair made an interesting point a few pages back concerning the LDM being in the 4 peaks area, which was part of Gottfrieds searches. I ran into a gentleman sometime back and have pictures of ore he had hidden away in the back of his property that he bought from an assayer that came from the LDM ...

I received an email as well concerning Jim's passing. I am very sorry to hear of his passing. I regret never taking him up on the several offers to go hiking. I enjoyed my discussions with him and also regret I never got him hooked up with Bilbrey.

Greg Davis has just let me know he is donating a first edition of Sims Ely's "Lost Duchman Mine" as well!!!!

Thank you Greg

I asked my Arborist for some wood and he deposited 2 truck loads in my front yard! I will bring as much as I can.......took all afternoon just to get it in the back yard.

This year for the raffle Tom Kollenborn has generously donated a copy of his "Chronological history of the Superstition ...

Not speaking about baseball (which was actually what this thread was originally about) My draft will be Saturday at the rendezvous, Hope my assistants do as I say......

Looking forward to the fall season, We went out in an ugly fashion last spring. First I agreed to delay the game rather than have ...

After thinking about it all day, The scheduled hike may change to Whitlows corral, Reeds water and Abe Reids old claims. This is a much easier hike and the added plus is we pass through the Quarter Circle U and the soldiers grave is only minutes away as well. The only real challenge would be the ...

I already promised Trevor we would leave without you..........

Just Another Reminder..............

The 7th annual Dutch Hunter rendezvous is scheduled for October 21st, 22nd and 23rd at the Dons camp just off Peralta road on the 110th anniversary of Jacob Waltz's death. Our Guest speaker for Saturday night this year is our good friend Bob Schoose. The gate to ...

That's great Joe, I look forward to hearing those stories from him if he is able to make it.

Hope all goes well and looking forward to seeing him again.......

There is a notebook with 8X10s of the original Bilbrey crosses, not sure about the latin heart stuff though.

I will try to file it away next time I run into John and I suggest the same to everyone else. I am sure he would be more than happy to share if he knows.

Fascinating and not what I expected. I would like to relate that I had contact with individual who told me that a certain Dutch Hunting story was fake. I was surprised at how quickly it came up and was hoping for more of a story than what I got.

In the end the folks who were suspicious of the ...

Sorry guys, I worked through the weekend as usual and clicked submit and went off to bed. Another 14 hours today..........Fun to read stuff you barely remember posting!

The map is actually a dark brown, but I usually lighten a lot of materials to this blue hue which is easier on the eyes and brings ...