Coronado's Children

<p>Written in 1930 <i>Coronado's Children</i> was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books and the one that 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 in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker the Spaniard Coronado.</p> <p>These people Dobie writes in his introduction no matter what language they speak are truly Coronado's inheritors.... l have called 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 and tell stories of lost mines of buried bullion by the jack load... </p> <p>This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.</p>