Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real?
Jack Humphrey
Cameron, Texas
The “Dutchman,” like most lost mines in the West, is a huge myth with a little bit of reality thrown in.
Why has this lost mine captured the imagination of so many? The mine is said to be located “somewhere out there” near mysterious Superstition Mountains in southwest Arizona, a rugged wilderness laced with twisting canyons and an impenetrable maze of rocks and cactus, beautified by an aura that has made the area a

December 2013
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- Courage Under Fire
- Home Brewed Gun Show
- Geronimo!
- Tracks that Speak
- The Frontier Christmas Trail
- Rat Pack Troopers
- The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
- Getting Shotgun Loaded
- The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
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- Christopher Price
- A Cement Pudding
- The Three Godfathers
- A Rope for a Rat
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- How were guns cleaned in the Old West?
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