Description
Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was once one among J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the person who helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure within the Southwest following within the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado.
“These people,” Dobie writes in his introduction, “it doesn’t matter what language they speak, are really Coronado’s inheritors…. l have known as them Coronado’s children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit down and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load… “
This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, coping with subjects as impossible to resist as ghost stories and haunted houses.