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I soundly agree that Frank Dobie was a story teller, not a
historian. He ran very fast and loose with the facts and place names.
I had a great uncle that was a policeman in Tucson Az. in the 1920's.
He was an amature author and published a book called "Tombstone
Yesterday". It was about characters and incidents that took place in
southern Arizona. My uncle crossed paths with Dobie in 1928.
Dobie "borrowed" a lot of info from him and used it in several stories
that were published later.
It was later shown that a lot of that same information was completely
erroneous.
Don't believe anything you read in these old (or new) books unless
you can research it and back it up.

  Good luck ......Hay2

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Books like you all are talking about are a must.

But don't forget the little published facts that show up in local papers.

One day , Out of work and needed something to do, I hit the library.


Conned the Research gal to let me check out  the Fitch es of papers from 1840-1860.

Man, I learned way more about my area then I even knew was here.

I'm still looking for a map of Camp Cody here about 2 miles from my house.

I can find all sorts of info but no exact boundaries.  It was 2000 acres, had 20,000 troops on it living in tents just as WWI was starting.   Gotta be some goodies out there some place.

The Spanish Flu hit in 1918 and was killing folks coast to coast about then.


They were afraid to touch any thing and just burned the lot.  Uniforms pockets full, Tents, All.



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Yeah, I  don't think Dobie was the one that KVM was talking about----there were some writers who specialized in lost treasure tales who fit the bill as well or better.   Dobie would write about anything that interested him, including treasure yarns, but usually in a greater context whereas the ones I think KVM was talking about dealt exclusively in treasure tales presented as facts.

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