J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays. (The New York Times) Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night. (Chicago Evening Post) This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas. (Basic Texas Books)

• "The Precious Ability to Wonder"In the BeginningI. The Lost San Saba Mine Miranda's ReportThe FilibustersBowie's SecretIn the Burned Cedar BrakeYellow Wolf: "Three Suns West"Captive WitnessesBeasley's CavernPebbles of GoldThe Magic Circle on PacksaddleAurelio's TrunkThe RelicThe Pictured Copper PlatesAn Innocent Old LiarThe Broken MetateII. Down The Nueces General Baylor's AssayEspantosa LakeWitching for SilverThe Gold That Turned to CarbÓnMysteries of the San CasimiroEl TigreThe Rock PensWhere Parallel Lines IntersectCasa BlancaIII. The Facts About Fort RamÕrezIV. The Circumstance Of War Relics of De SotoThe Stuffed Cannon of the NechesSanta Anna's ChestsPalo Alto and Resaca de La PalmaSteinheimer's MillionsV. Tales Of The Cow Camp The Rider of Loma EscondidaBumblebees and SkilitonsThe Measure of a Wagon RodVI. Post Hole BanksVII. Midas On A GoatskinVIII. The Lost Nigger MineIX. On West The Engineer's LedgeThe Lost Padre MineX. Los Muertos No HablanXI. The Challenge of the Desert Nuggets in the SandThe Breyfogle MineYuma's GoldXII. In The Sunshine of the Pecos Bewitched SandEl MachoLa Mina PerdidaThat Ole Man DevilThe Montezuma of the PecosJosÉ Vaca's CaveJosÉ's One Lucky FindXIII. The Pecos Barricade Maximilian's GoldRattlesnake Cave on the PecosThe Fateful OpalsXIV. The Secret of the GuadalupesXV. Not Only Gold and Silver The Foxes Have HolesPrecious LeadCopper on the BrazosXVI. Sartin for Sure Moro's GoldThe Mystery of the Palo DuroXVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas In a Chicken's CrawThe James Boys' LootDevil's CanyonThe Pothole of NuggetsXVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty The Man of MysteryThe LegendsXIX. Shadows And SymbolsNotesGlossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest

J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays. (The New York Times) Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night. (Chicago Evening Post) This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas. (Basic Texas Books)

• "The Precious Ability to Wonder"In the BeginningI. The Lost San Saba Mine Miranda's ReportThe FilibustersBowie's SecretIn the Burned Cedar BrakeYellow Wolf: "Three Suns West"Captive WitnessesBeasley's CavernPebbles of GoldThe Magic Circle on PacksaddleAurelio's TrunkThe RelicThe Pictured Copper PlatesAn Innocent Old LiarThe Broken MetateII. Down The Nueces General Baylor's AssayEspantosa LakeWitching for SilverThe Gold That Turned to CarbÓnMysteries of the San CasimiroEl TigreThe Rock PensWhere Parallel Lines IntersectCasa BlancaIII. The Facts About Fort RamÕrezIV. The Circumstance Of War Relics of De SotoThe Stuffed Cannon of the NechesSanta Anna's ChestsPalo Alto and Resaca de La PalmaSteinheimer's MillionsV. Tales Of The Cow Camp The Rider of Loma EscondidaBumblebees and SkilitonsThe Measure of a Wagon RodVI. Post Hole BanksVII. Midas On A GoatskinVIII. The Lost Nigger MineIX. On West The Engineer's LedgeThe Lost Padre MineX. Los Muertos No HablanXI. The Challenge of the Desert Nuggets in the SandThe Breyfogle MineYuma's GoldXII. In The Sunshine of the Pecos Bewitched SandEl MachoLa Mina PerdidaThat Ole Man DevilThe Montezuma of the PecosJosÉ Vaca's CaveJosÉ's One Lucky FindXIII. The Pecos Barricade Maximilian's GoldRattlesnake Cave on the PecosThe Fateful OpalsXIV. The Secret of the GuadalupesXV. Not Only Gold and Silver The Foxes Have HolesPrecious LeadCopper on the BrazosXVI. Sartin for Sure Moro's GoldThe Mystery of the Palo DuroXVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas In a Chicken's CrawThe James Boys' LootDevil's CanyonThe Pothole of NuggetsXVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty The Man of MysteryThe LegendsXIX. Shadows And SymbolsNotesGlossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest

J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays. (The New York Times) Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night. (Chicago Evening Post) This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas. (Basic Texas Books)

• "The Precious Ability to Wonder"In the BeginningI. The Lost San Saba Mine Miranda's ReportThe FilibustersBowie's SecretIn the Burned Cedar BrakeYellow Wolf: "Three Suns West"Captive WitnessesBeasley's CavernPebbles of GoldThe Magic Circle on PacksaddleAurelio's TrunkThe RelicThe Pictured Copper PlatesAn Innocent Old LiarThe Broken MetateII. Down The Nueces General Baylor's AssayEspantosa LakeWitching for SilverThe Gold That Turned to CarbÓnMysteries of the San CasimiroEl TigreThe Rock PensWhere Parallel Lines IntersectCasa BlancaIII. The Facts About Fort RamÕrezIV. The Circumstance Of War Relics of De SotoThe Stuffed Cannon of the NechesSanta Anna's ChestsPalo Alto and Resaca de La PalmaSteinheimer's MillionsV. Tales Of The Cow Camp The Rider of Loma EscondidaBumblebees and SkilitonsThe Measure of a Wagon RodVI. Post Hole BanksVII. Midas On A GoatskinVIII. The Lost Nigger MineIX. On West The Engineer's LedgeThe Lost Padre MineX. Los Muertos No HablanXI. The Challenge of the Desert Nuggets in the SandThe Breyfogle MineYuma's GoldXII. In The Sunshine of the Pecos Bewitched SandEl MachoLa Mina PerdidaThat Ole Man DevilThe Montezuma of the PecosJosÉ Vaca's CaveJosÉ's One Lucky FindXIII. The Pecos Barricade Maximilian's GoldRattlesnake Cave on the PecosThe Fateful OpalsXIV. The Secret of the GuadalupesXV. Not Only Gold and Silver The Foxes Have HolesPrecious LeadCopper on the BrazosXVI. Sartin for Sure Moro's GoldThe Mystery of the Palo DuroXVII. The Treasure of the Wichitas In a Chicken's CrawThe James Boys' LootDevil's CanyonThe Pothole of NuggetsXVIII. Laffite and Pirate Booty The Man of MysteryThe LegendsXIX. Shadows And SymbolsNotesGlossary of Mexican and Other Localisms of the Southwest