Posts from Stumpy in thread „Stories Of The Old Southwest“

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Originally posted by William T Brooks@May 8 2004, 06:15 PM
I am glad that I live 100 hundred miles North of Phoenix in the wide open spaces! Chilibill

I know exactly what you mean, Bill. When I retired from the service in 1978, the wife and I bought a house and went to work in a suburb of Dallas. But after eight years of fighting that traffic and putting up with those hordes of people, I had had enough. So we moved to a little town about a hundred miles away that only has 3,000 population. That's about the size of the town I grew up in and I sure do love the less-frenetic way of life. No traffic, no crime and you know all your neighbors.
Of course, there are no jobs either but since I'm on Social Security and have a military pension, I don't work anyway. Love it. I'll take the country life any time over the city.

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Originally posted by William T Brooks@May 8 2004, 12:30 PM
Stumpy; In the 1940s as High School kids we would go to the Superstition Mountains all the time hoping to make the big strike!!! The mountains were only a hour drive from Phoenix. Chilibill

Did you ever see that 1940's movie "Lust For Gold", with Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino? Ford played Jacob Walz. I have it on tape but haven't watched it for quite awhile. If I remember correctly, the area where the mine was supposed to be located suffers a big earthquake, which destroys all the old landmarks left by the Peraltas. It begins in modern (1940s) Arizona, where a guy is searching for the mine. He relates all the mysterious killings that have taken place in connection with searchers for the mine. Then it flashes back to Walz's time and tells about him finding the mine. Not a bad flick. As a kid, I entertained thoughts of going to the Superstitions myself.

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Originally posted by William T Brooks@May 8 2004, 11:06 AM
Smokey and I were talking about the different cultures in Australia and the Southwestern part of the U.S.A. in the late 1800s and the early 1900s and thought that some of you might like to hear them also. As you will see in these stories most of these people were of European descendant, you can tell by their last names, were mixing with the Native Americans and Mexicans in the old Southwest that was very wild country in those days. You can go to THE SHARP FAMILY For the Stories. Chilibill

I've always been a bit of a romanticist, especially in my younger days, and gloried in tales of the Old West, particularly those concerning lost mines and buried treasures. Some of my very favorite books are J. Frank Dobie's "Coronado's Children" and "Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver". Wouldn't it be great to find the Lost Dutchman?