http://www.xpeditionsmagazine.com/magazine/canyon/canyon.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O61YmW1LhIs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JL-VoSnimJg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XPv2BNpS7Tw
"The Night is Darkest just Before the Dawn
And I promise you, the Dawn IS coming"
None of the videos are there any more.
Actually, some Egyptian Hieroglyphs were supposedly found in Australia here as well, but they turned out to be forgeries: http://www.donsmaps.com/hoax.html
Laura Ess
For a history of the Lost Adams (as well as related legends) read "Apache Gold And Yaqui Silver" by J. Frank Dobie (1939, Boston; Little, Brown).
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"
Thank you for that! I wondered about the history about it myself. One thing I love about classic film is that many of them were inspired or about forgotten moments in our history that no one knows about anymore.
cheers
kim
www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/186977/TCM-Fanatic-TCM-Original-Kim-Punkrock
There's also a nice bit on the "Lost Adams Diggings" in Wikipedia.
"I'm not reckless . . . I'm skillful!"
And here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Adams_Diggings
There is also a link within that article to the Lost Dutchman's mine.
The last sentence in the article mentions the movie and the book by Heck Allen upon which it is based. There is a link to the movie's Wikipedia article.
I actually read the book Mackenna's Gold , 1963, by Heck Allen.
I don't remember much about the plot, except that There was no cavalry sergeant Tibbs in the book. The closest character to him was a US army Indian Scout. a fictional teenage son of the historical Mickey Free (1847/48-1914).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Free
And after reading Mackenna's Gold , 1963 I read up the history and legend of the Lost Adams Diggings.
And from what I have read, I don't know which - if any - of the many versions of the story of the Adams mine are correct.
I forget the fictional date, except that I think I remember that Nana (c. 1810-May 19, 1896) was supposed to be dead by then - the movie apparently has a fictional date of 1874.