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by alan m
Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:38 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Rock Images
Replies: 0
Views: 12477

Rock Images

Hello Everyone
I just wanted to share some photos of strange rock images I found in the Superstitions on my last trip.
Best Regards
Alan
by alan m
Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

Hello Zentull You are so right! I've spent the better part of my reseach running down false leads. Everything is speculative untill the darn mine is found. In the short time I have been on this blog, everyone has shown patience and given me much information and I am indebted to you all. I am looking...
by alan m
Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:30 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

Hello Randy Yes I have a few photos, some are better than others, my next trip out I plan on waiting until the sun is in the best position for the shadows and get a better shot. I am planning on a trip the last week of Febuary, if I can get away from work. I am still learning how to post photos on t...
by alan m
Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:21 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Re: Travis Tumlinson

Hello Klondike Facinating info, I never thought about the area where the knife points but if the maps work on multiple levels, which I am sure you are right, then it would make for an even more convincing argument for thier authenticity. I have discovered that the meaning of many of the tablet symbo...
by alan m
Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:12 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

My apologies Gentlemen You are right lets keep names out of it, but just for the record my information comes from Helen Corbins book " The Curse of the Dutchman's Gold " page 218 to 221. Specifically a conversation between Tex Barkley and Walter Gassler. It was not my intention to lay blam...
by alan m
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:44 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Re: Travis Tumlinson

Thanks for the feedback guys I have been working on the stone tablets for about 4 years solid but was introduced to the in 1977. currently I have a strong indication that they are of Jesuit origin but this puts the record of Tumlinson in jepardy and I am forced to conclude that the story of how he a...
by alan m
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:28 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Sleeping Squaw Map Origin?
Replies: 1
Views: 3631

Re: Sleeping Squaw Map Origin?

Hello
Greg Davis is the one to talk to, he wrote an article about it in the Superstition Mountain Historical Society Journal in 2004.
If I remember correctly the original map came from a Pima or Papago indian woman named Ramona Flores.
Alan
by alan m
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:24 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

Hello Gentlemen I do not blame Barkley, I am sure he had a good reason for destroying evidence of Spanish minning, But that means that clues and information, some maybe crucial, has been lost. I think that sucks, and whats worse is the park service is doing the same thing, destroying evidence. Yes s...
by alan m
Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:11 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Jesuit tresure and Charles Polzer S.J.
Replies: 0
Views: 13044

Jesuit tresure and Charles Polzer S.J.

Hello everyone Thought I might spice up the pot a bit, it seems that the other blog sites are getting more attention than this one and I find it difficult to keep up here let alone join three others. Many researchers place considerable worth on statments made by the late Charles Polzer concerning th...
by alan m
Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:15 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Re: Travis Tumlinson

Hello Zentull Great stuff! I had always wondered if some of the scratchings on the tablets had been made by someone else, I figured that it was most likely Clarence Mitchell. The name Miguel carved on the edge of the horse tablet should not be there, I am convinced that this tablet was larger and pa...
by alan m
Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:04 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

Hello Zentull So cool to have been able to explore the area as a youngster, Today I consider myself fortunate to get into the mountains once or twice a season. Do you think that Kino could have climbed the needle? I would love to expolre that area, if the story is true about jones blowing up the cro...
by alan m
Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:57 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Re: Travis Tumlinson

Hello Klondike Thank-you for the info, Tumlinson has been a difficult person to nail down. You are right in that most people look past the details but thats where the key elements are and tumlinson had the tablets. I have discovered some interesting things about the tablets I shall pass on to you. T...
by alan m
Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:17 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Re: Travis Tumlinson

Thank-you for the leads
Alan
by alan m
Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:15 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Re: Kino's Gold the LDM?

That is what Glenn Magill said, that the cross was on top of the Needle, but the climb is a technical grade 5 which means lots of equipment, experience and a little bit insanity. As for the proof that Kino got into the Superstitions, only the Pima legend offers any, however one of Kinos three diarie...
by alan m
Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:21 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Kino's Gold the LDM?
Replies: 31
Views: 30961

Kino's Gold the LDM?

Has anyone heard the story about how Father Kino came to place an alabaster cross on top of Weavers Needle? I can only find slight reference to it, one is in Gentry's book "The Killer Mountains" and the other is an old Pima Indian legend; Apparently the Pima Indians were troubled by string...
by alan m
Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:36 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Lost Trails
Replies: 4
Views: 11491

Re: Lost Trails

Klondike I find the trail markers in the Superstitions facinating, my research puts a date of around 1790 to 1810. This is was the only time when the Apache were pacified enough for a real survey to have been conducted. It was the stratigy and campaign of General Hugh O'Conner that brought this abou...
by alan m
Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Travis Tumlinson
Replies: 42
Views: 41484

Travis Tumlinson

Does anyone have an alternate theory of how Travis Tumlinson acquired the stone tablets? I just cannot accept that he "STUMBLED UPON THEM IN THE DESERT NEAR QUEEN CREEK" I have heard that he purchased them from some one who found them in a church in Arizpe This is also troubling because it...
by alan m
Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:24 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Lost Trails
Replies: 4
Views: 11491

Re: Lost Trails

Hello Klondike I would like to know more about that trail, all roads lead to something, at least they did at one time. Early scouts followed game trails to water and succesful archaeologist follow old trails to lost Indian dwellings. The early Spanish would have worn a trail down a lot in the proces...
by alan m
Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:24 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Jesuits
Replies: 0
Views: 10404

Jesuits

The Jesuits playa a role in the lost mines and hidden treasures of the Southwest. I first began looking into the possibility that the Jesuits had something to do with the Stone Tablets, I never bought into the Peralta connection, I did not find the smoking gun and as most of you are aware the eviden...
by alan m
Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:25 pm
Forum: Non LDM Lost Treasure, Mines, Old West, etc
Topic: Lost Trails
Replies: 4
Views: 11491

Lost Trails

In my years of researching the history of the Southwest, I had a conversation with an oldtimer who had done some considerable prospecting and research into lost mines. He told me about an alternate gold route the Spanish used as far back as 1620. It ran from San Diego to somewhere near Corpus christ...
by alan m
Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:14 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Just a thought
Replies: 8
Views: 8994

Re: Just a thought

Travis Tumlinson was sure of the area covered as was Clarence Mitchell, now it is likely that clarence got his information directly from Tumlinson but still all accounts indicate that tumlinson knew the tablets pertained to the Superstiton's
Alan
by alan m
Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:04 pm
Forum: LDM Discussions
Topic: Just a thought
Replies: 8
Views: 8994

Just a thought

Has it occured to anyone that the Peralta Stone Tablets are NOT related to the Lost Dutchman? They may actually lead to a hidden Jesuit treasure. Marie Celeste Jones was convinced that there was one in the mountains and she was backed by others convinced of it as well. There are more item in common ...