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Choto,

The obvious answer is to become the accepted expert on all things Dutchman. What follows will be the "expert's" book.

Good luck,

Joe Ribaudo

There are some really good posts being written here lately, but I would caution everyone to not take every statement of "fact" as factual. New revelations from diaries that have not been in the public eye before are especially suspect. Look for authentication of all such documents by reli...

There are some really good posts being written here lately, but I would caution everyone to not take every statement of "fact" as factual. New revelations from diaries that have not been in the public eye before are especially suspect. Look for authentication of all such documents by relia...

Choto, Many of your questions can be answered in this book: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Lake+Erie+Schaefer&ds=20&sts=t and here: http://www.thelostdutchmangoldmine.com/forum/search.php?keywords=Lake+Erie&sid=ee89ddf3daed2229acae300ac0fbb5bd Good luck, Joe Ribaudo

Peralta land Grant Document 1 (2).jpg Peralta Land Grant Document 22.jpg These are the two pages James Reavis and Charles Gitt changed in the original Peralta Land grant to make it into a fraudulent grant of MUCH greater size. On the first page Reavis merely changed the page number in the upper and...

Choto,

While that area did produce, some, gold they were primarily silver mines.

Good luck,

Joe

Fiction??? For an adventurer/explorer there had to be something in Barney's history to use! Something? Most seekers have little time & less funds to help them along. The Spanish recorded the priest who was also trained in minerals carried an ore sample into the sierra mtns to show the natives! ...

New member to site with a question! All LDM references never seem to use the author Barney Barnard? He had a lot to say about Jacob Walzer & the general history of the Superstition Mountains, and what went on there in the 1800s! Barney's account appears quite different & therefore puzzling ...

Choto,

Don't know if you are already doing this, but on some of these old sites you can enter a word or name, such as Ballesteros in the search function of the site and come up with some interesting facts/sources.

You are researching areas that have been searched before.

Good luck,

Joe

Choto, No problem. It's a great read for those researching the history of old Mexico. Cynthia wrote this on page 187: "On the eve of the expulsion of the Jesuits, Don Salvador Julián Moreno owned the Hacienda de Jamaica and let out some of the land to tenant families. Don Salvador and his wife,...