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"Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains" Table of ContentsNOW Available on Amazon.com
Written by Robert Zucker The detailed history and legends of the Catalinas is told in a 400-page paperback. Buy "Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains" online for a discount at amazon.com, at CreateSpace eStore, or locally in Tucson at Mostly Books, Oracle Inn, Buzz Café and other locations to be announced. Kindle: Treasures of the Santa Catalina Mountains Maps Of Santa Catalina Mountains....... 4 The legends Hidden In The Santa Catalinas... 13 The Legendary Sites & Ruins In The Santa Catalina Mountains....... 17Sky Island Holds A Treasure Story... 19 Naming The Santa Catalina Mountains... 21 Is It Catalina Or Catarina?... 22 Early Residents Of The Catalinas... 26 Tucson is one of the oldest, continually inhabited areas in North America.... 26 Cañada Del Oro The Canyon Of Gold... 27 Cañada Del Oro Petroglyphs... 31 Monoliths Around The Catalinas... 37 La Ventaña- The Window... 38 La Veñtana: A Hole, Or A Notch?... 39 From La Ventaña, You Can See The Lost Mine... 41 Pueblo Viejo The Old Village... 44 “Pueblo Viejo” North And East Of The Catalinas... 45 Pueblo Viejo’s Around Tucson... 48 Stone Building Constructions... 49 1880: An Old Stone Building... 52 1881: Ruins Near Ft. Lowell... 53 1881: Many Ruined Buildings Found In the Catalinas... 53 1882: Pueblo Viejo Voting At The Canyon Del Oro... 54 1883: The Story Of The “Stone Church”... 55 1889-1896: More Ruins Seen In The Santa Catalinas... 57 Ruins At Catalina State Park... 60 The Fabled “Mission Of Ciru”........... 64 Quest For The Mission Of Ciru... 66 The Romero Ranch Built On Top Of Indian Ruins... 68 The Lost City Near Mt. Lemmon... 72 Onka’s Leap Of Faith An Indian Legend... 76 The History And The Legends Of The Santa Catalina Mountains....... 77How The Legends Started... 77 Perpetuating The Legends With Historical Anachronisms... 78 The Mines, The Missions And The History Of Arizona... 79 How The Spanish Mining Story Unfolds... 81 The Earliest Sources Of The Spanish Mine Legends... 83 The Map Of Spanish Settlements And Mines... 85 Kino’s Map Of The New Land... 87 How The Legends Circulated... 88 The Word Spreads About Arizona... 91 The Legends & The History... 93 Early Spanish Search For Gold... 95 The Legend: Coronado’s discovers gold at Cañon del Oro.... 95 The History: Coronado may have passed by the Catalinas.... 95 Next Wave Of Spanish Conquest... 100 The Legend: In 1698, Father’s Kino and Escalante sought minerals.... 100 The History: In 1698, Sgt. Escalante, accompanied by Father Kino, sought minerals reportedly discovered in the Catalinas by the Indians.... 100 1686-1711: Kino’s Mission To Convert The Natives... 102 1697: Kino Establishes Missions The Military Hunts For Minerals... 104 1698: Kino’s Expeditions & The Search For Minerals... 107 The Quicksilver Messenger... 110 1700: Kino’s Mysterious “Blue Shells”... 111 1702: Rich Mines Near San Xavier... 113 Mining In The Santa Ritas & Tumacacori... 114 The Military’s Nefarious Role... 115 How Did Escalante Get Implicated With The Iron Door Mine?... 117 The Lost Escalante Man... 119 Mucho Escalantes: Who Owned The Lost Mine?... 122 1680s: Capt. Juan Bautista de Escalante, The Military Man... 123 1752: Francisco Xavier de Escalante... 127 1776: Fray Silvestre de Escalante, The Franciscan... 129 1829: Manuel Escalante & The Missions... 131 Naming The Lost Escalante... 133 The Lost Mission Of Santa Catalina... 134 The Legend: There is a lost mission in the Santa Catalinas.... 134 The History: There was a mission called Santa Catalina.... 134 It may have been in the Santa Catalinas at one time.... 134 Locating The Lost Santa Catalina Mission... 137 1697-1711: The Story Of Padre Kino’s Santa Catalina... 140 1711-1732: Missionary Visits To Santa Catalina After Kino... 142 1732: Santa Catharina “7 leagues to the east”... 143 1734-1736: Indians Revolt, Minerals Discovered... 146 1751: The Fatal Pima Indian Revolt... 148 1752: A fort At Santa Catalina?... 150 1757: Middendorf’s Mission In Tucson With ‘2 Pueblos’... 153 1767: Jesuits Expelled, Franciscans Acquire Missions... 155 1769: San Juan Day June Massacre... 157 Aquituni The Land Near Picacho... 158 1862: The Civil War Battle At Picacho... 161 History Time Shifts Into Legend: What Is Fact From The Legends?... 162 Lost Mines Of The Santa Catalinas... 163 The Mine With The Iron Door... 163 Old Spanish Mines Of Sonora... 163 Goldberg’s Lost Ledge... 163 Lots Of Old Mines In The Mountains... 164 Mine With The Iron Door Legends... 165 Iron Door Mines In The United States... 167 1880: The Mine With The Iron Door & The Nine Mile City... 169 1883-93: Lost Spanish Mines South Of Tucson... 173 1891: An “Iron Door” Found... 174 1894: Bullock’s “Lost Mine”... 175 1895-1896: More Old Mines Discovered... 176 1899: Charley Brown & The Iron Door Mine... 177 1923: Howard Bell Wright’s “Mine With The Iron Door”... 179 1924: “Mine With The Iron Door” Movies... 182 ‘MacKenna’s Gold’ In The Canyon del Oro... 183 1929-1933: Men Work ‘Ancient Mine’... 185 McKee Stakes Out The “Fabulous Escalante Mine The Iron Door Mine”... 186 1937: McKee Seeks Iron Door Mine, Again... 192 1946: Prospector Dies Seeking The Lost Mine... 196 1966-1988: Mayor Hunts For Treasure... 197 The Tucson Arizona Gold Rush....... 199Gold Discoveries In The Santa Catalinas... 200 1850-1890: Gold-Quartz Jewelry Popularized... 202 The Rush For Tucson Gold... 203 American’s Mining Gold From The Canyon Of Gold... 205 Discovering the Gold Canyon... 209 1843: First ‘Recorded’ Discovery Of Gold In The Cañon del Oro... 212 1846-1848: Roadblocks To Gold Recovery... 216 1850s: Americans Discover Tucson... 217 1855: Gold Found Near The Catalinas... 218 1858: The Tucson Gold Rush Begins... 219 1859-1870: Civilizing The ‘Cañon del Oro’... 222 1861: The Ambush Of Page & Scott... 226 1862-1870: Treaty Broken Again; Cavalry Protects CDO Travelers... 228 1863-1864: The Great Gold Exploration Is On!... 231 The Grand Campaign against the Apaches... 231 1867: Army Sets Up Camp Again In The CDO... 232 1867: Goldberg’s “Lost Ledge”... 234 1870s: The Kennedy-Israel Massacre... 236 More Indian Depredations In The CDO... 239 1872: Mining Law Encourages Prospecting... 241 1874: Apaches Keep People Out Of The CDO... 243 1874: First Mining Company In The Cañon del Oro... 245 1874: First Steam Pump Installed... 247 1875: Goldberg Returns For Another Try... 248 Other Mining Ventures Around Tucson & The Santa Catalinas... 249 1880s: Good News From Gold Canyon... 252 1882: Goldberg Returns; Claims Expand In CDO... 256 1880s: Samaniego Stakes A Claim in Cañada del Oro... 257 Rancho Solaño & The Linda Vista Ranch... 263 Samaniego & The Victorio Treasure... 265 1887: Tucson Earthquake Rocks Discovery Of Gold... 267 1887: Drachman’s “Chunks of Gold”... 268 1891: Gold Diggers In The Cañada del Oro... 269 1896: Gold Quartz Re-Discovery... 270 1897: Gold Hill In The Cañon del Oro... 271 1899: Ledge of Gold Found In The Cañon Del Oro... 272 1900s: Rich Gold Strikes In The CDO... 273 1901-1907: Bauer’s Unfortunate Luck... 274 CDO Claims Continue To Abound... 276 1907: Samaniego’s Esperanza Mine... 277 1912: CDO Water Rights More Important Than Gold... 278 1922: “Rich Gold Strike” In The Catalinas... 278 1930s: Still Progress In Finding Gold... 279 1933: Gold Outlawed, Prospecting & Mining Shifts To Copper... 280 1982: 230 oz. Gold Near Spanish Placer Sites... 281 Mining Near La Ventaña... 282 Town Of Oracle - Old Hat District Mining... 283 Christmas In The Desert & The founding Of Oracle... 286 Peppersauce Canyon A Spicy Mystery... 291 The Old Hat Mining District... 292 How The Old Hat May Have Acquired Its Name... 295 1880: Prospectors Flood The Old Hat... 296 1881: Old Hat Expands, New Claims... 297 1882-1884: More Ore From The Old Hat; Railroad Planned... 299 New Road For Hundreds Of Workers... 301 1886: Chance Finding Of Gold Bearing Quartz... 303 William “Curley” Neal Moves To Oracle... 304 The Jail Tree And The Mountain View Hotel... 308 1900: Mining Becomes A Major Business in Arizona... 309 1901: A Rodent Leads To A Gold Discovery... 311 1904: Rail Line Abandoned... 312 1911: Old Hat Gains New Owners the Copper Queen... 314 1912: Arizona Statehood And Mining The Catalinas... 316 1913: Leatherwood And The Copper Queen Old Hat Claims... 317 1915: The Castro’s Discoveries In The Catalinas... 319 The 3C Ranch “Mary West” Mine... 320 Gold At Campo Bonito... 321“Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Mining Ventures In The Catalinas... 325 1902: Buffalo Bill Stakes His Claim At Campo Bonito... 326 1908-09: Buffalo Bill Is Impressed With New Prospects... 329 1910: Cody Expands His Mining Claims... 330 1911: Cody’s Mines Supply Tungsten For Edison... 334 1912: Ewing Shakes Up Campo Bonito... 336 Ewing Takes Control Of Campo Bonito... 341 The Southern Belle Mine... 345 1881: Gold Extracted From Southern Belle... 345 ‘Struck It Rich’ At The Southern Belle... 346 1908-1910: Southern Belle Closed, Then Resumes... 350 1911: Cody Acquires The Southern Belle Gold Mine... 352 1930-2010: Southern Belle Passes To New Owners... 354 The Historic High Jinks Ranch... 357 1933: High Jinks Ranch Built In Campo Bonito... 358 Catalina Camp Marble Peak... 361 Old Mexican Coin, Artifact Found... 362 1880-1940s: Marble Peak The Ledge Of Copper... 364 The San Catarina Copper Company... 367 1900: Catalina Camp Deep In The Catalinas... 371 1902: End Of A Mining Era At Catalina Camp... 373 1917: Road Built; Stratton Claims Sold To Wilson... 374 1940s: Hartman’s Homestake Mines Expands Claim... 375 1942: U.S. Closes Gold Mines In War Effort... 375 The Last Prospector... 376 The Legend: Revisited... 382Prospecting The Santa Catalina Mountains Today... 384 Author: Robert Zucker.. 386 Resources... 388 Web Site Resources... 388 Historical Gold Prices... 389 Videos... 389 Bibliography... 398 Illustrations... 408 Index....... 410
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