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- Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:10 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Another Dutch Hunter Crosses Over
- Replies: 66
- Views: 56378
Re: Another Dutch Hunter Crosses Over
Tom Burnett. As some may know, my first introduction to the Superstitions was a trip with Tom Burnett and Len Killen. That one trip turned into two life long friend ships. As I posted a while back I lost Len a few years ago. Tom and I would visit by phone every month to every few months. Tom lived ...
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:15 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Rendezvous
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2836
Re: Rendezvous
Addendum: I have rechecked Bicknell’s 1895 article, “One of Arizona’s El Dorados” (San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 13, 1895). I still find no reference to a massacre. However, I did find a very interesting paragraph. It is the seventh paragraph and, reads: “During the past year all the old stories hav...
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:22 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Rendezvous
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2836
Re: Rendezvous
Zentell, I agree. One of the facets of the legend is the massacre story and Mexican mining culminating in Silverlock and Malm. I am not saying such a thing didn’t happen. It seems fairly certain that something similar likely happened. The massacre story has become a staple of the legend. Yet, there ...
- Mon May 27, 2019 12:53 pm
- Forum: Around the Campfire
- Topic: Memorial Day - Freedom Isn't Free
- Replies: 0
- Views: 459
Memorial Day - Freedom Isn't Free
To All WHo Have Served This Memorial Day I am remembering my father and a conversation I had with Tom K. My dad was a fireman in San Bernardino, California on December 7, 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor there was fear of a Japanese attack on California. Men who were firemen on Dec. 7th were e...
- Sat May 11, 2019 1:32 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Mike, Good to see you posting. Would have responded sooner, but life got in the way. I don't know if you caught this earlier post. So thought I'd repost some of it. Concerning Silverlock and Malm: - Did the Mexicans mine between the Gila and Salt Rivers? Again I believe the weight of the evidence is...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:48 am
- Forum: Around the Campfire
- Topic: A Joke or Two
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1161
A Joke or Two
Want to brighten up someone's day with innocent fun? When you go into a Papa Murphy’s pizza as you pick up your order they will ask you : Do you have any questions? (temperature, timing, etc.) Say, Yes. I do have a question. As they stop to answer you say: You know the Big Bang, created energy and o...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Another Dutch Hunter Crosses Over
- Replies: 66
- Views: 56378
Re: Another Dutch Hunter Crosses Over
Gerald “Jerry” Hamrick (1927-2019) My guess is only a few old timers know about Gerald “Jerry” Hamrick. He has been a colleague and friend of mine for at least 25 years. My greatest regret is that I had not seen him in many weeks. I had been going by the nursing home at least once a week for a few y...
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: how did YOU first develop an interest?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1537
Re: how did YOU first develop an interest?
I think I may have already have addressed this issue in a book. But it bears readdressing. Many years ago I came across Sims Ely's book and it interested me. I was in high school, and it only interested me academically. Years later while in California and Carol, my wife was still in England, I ment ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:43 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Don, Thanks for the PM. It is good to see you posting. I appreciate your posts and I appreciate this forum as it tries to avoid what I can only kindly describe as flights of fancy approaching irrationality I encountered over on TNet. We do not all have to agree -- and it would be boring if we did. P...
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:26 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Research is an interesting thing. Getting it right is not just a matter of data, but of time and place too. I remember back many years ago there was what were called “Cat Conferences” in Seattle. The conferences targeted non-domestic cats, i.e., non-domestic felidae. At any given conference there mi...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
I wouldn’t be too hard on Helen. She relied on what she thought was reliable material from a person she and Bob trusted. Material said to come directly from pioneer families. At the time she wrote the book Helen was not the only person who accepted the information and its source. My understanding is...
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:39 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Gentlemen, IMHO a very good discussion. Thought I ,might throw in my 2 cents worth. - Did Waltz have gold and have it in quantity? I believe that the weight of the evidence is he did. That evidence is Julia’s turn around when she had no collateral. Holmes’ sudden improvement in life stile and the le...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Jim, Well done! A most interesting article. The start of the article reads: "From the Chicago Inter-Ocean". The Chicago Inter-Ocean was a Chicago newspaper. So I would assume that the article was also/originally printed in that newspaper. This would seem to be the earliest account of the Dutchman le...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:31 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Re: Massacure
Jim, Thank you. I was going through – skimming actually – Bick’s 1895 article on Waltz and the mine. I did not find a reference to the massacre story. It puzzled me. As I say I was skimming. When I get some spare time I’ll try and go a little deeper. But, I wonder if the massacre Bick refers to of t...
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Massacure
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11353
Massacure
Gentlemen, This question may well have been addressed before. What is the first/earliest mention of the massacre? And who was the person who first disclosed it? Was it Bicknell? Bark? Or was it the Howlands? Or ... I would dig through my files, but these days other things preclude me researching ver...
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:13 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Rendezvous
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2836
Re: Rendezvous
I cannot say. That has always been a question. But I have questions. Bark wrote a small document that contained what he considered his best info. It was passed to the Ely family, and I inherited it -- so to speak. I am greatly underwhelmed by its contents. There are things the Spangler famly looked ...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:19 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Rendezvous
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2836
Re: Rendezvous
Garry, I was never in the military. So I cannot speak from experience. My understanding from people who were in the military is the ranking officer on a joint operation or endeavor was the person in command – unless there were orders to the alternative. If I get a chance next week when I am in Phoen...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Rendezvous
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2836
Rendezvous
I regret not being at the Rendezvous this year. But as some know my wife had an accident a few days before the Rendezvous. I needed to be here, with her. Below is the talk I was scheduled to give Saturday night. Thomas Good evening, Before I start I like to make a toast, an old English toast from th...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:46 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: The Legend
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1468
Re: The Legend
Opps! I wrote the post on my iPad while watching a 60 minutes piece on falconry in Mongolia where they use eagles. Something that has intrigued me for years. Obviously, I was not paying enough attention to the post. But, there was some really good footage of the eagles! Here is what I meant to post:...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: The Legend
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1468
The Legend
Question: what is the origin of legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine and/or the Lost Dutchman Mine?
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Thomas
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Another Dutchhunter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2829
Re: Another Dutchhunter
Tom K's
Tom's Celebration of Life is being held at Lost Dutchman State Park starting at 4PM tomorrow, Saturday?
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Tom's Celebration of Life is being held at Lost Dutchman State Park starting at 4PM tomorrow, Saturday?
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- Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:39 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Another Dutchhunter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2829
Re: Another Dutchhunter
From what I can tell not all the posts to Another Dutch Hunter Passes Over made the transition. I was looking for what I wrote about Len Killen. But I did not find it.
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- Thu Sep 27, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: Another Dutchhunter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2829
Another Dutchhunter
There was a thread, Another Dutch Hunter Passes Over. Does anyone know how to access it?
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 1:30 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: The Legend
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2000
Re: The Legend
Don, I agree about Barry Storm. I see Barry as the bridge between the 1930s flurry of interest, and 1950s. While several people made permanent camps in the Sups. in the '30s and there was considerable interest in the LDM, none of them really spread the interest past the 1930s and/or outside a small ...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:42 pm
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: The Legend
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2000
The Legend
The question is: what was the genesis of the legend? From were was it birthed? Did it come from Julia? Or Julia and Rhinehart? Did Bicknell concoct the legend? Or did Bicknell simply gather information and publish lt? What about the Holmes account? Or did today's legend spring from Bark? Ely? Barry ...