Arizona is a wild, untamed land of jagged mountains and barren deserts making it an ideal place for lost mines and treasures.
These lost treasure tales can lead one down the path of plausibility and you have to figure out when to its time to get off. Such as it is with Hualapai Joe’s lost loot. Hualapai Joe Desredo wasn’t Arizona’s most notorious outlaw but he played a role in one of Arizona strangest lost treasure tales. On a June night in 1880, in Mohave County, Hualapai Joe and two

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus