RockyFrisco wrote:Jim, Glover seems to think he located the massacre site; it's on pages 74 and 75, with pictures of the site. Do you think this is the right place?
-Rock
Hi Rocky,
That area has never been a difficult one to find. It's very close to where I live, and barely a 15 min hike from the Lost Dutchman State Park. It has been shown on Topo maps for decades. Opinions vary on
exactly where the battle actually ended, but Glover's version has just as good a chance of being correct as anyone else's. According to Apcahe Legend, it was a 3 day running battle between the Apaches and the Peraltas. The area known as the "Massacre Grounds" was just supposed to be where the last men fell and the battle ended. It has been swept over and over with metal detectors, but every now and then, someone still reports finding a lead ball or a chunk of quartz with some gold in it.
Jim
P.S. The following quote is from Tom Glover's website at:
http://home.teleport.com/~lucca/LostDut ... uthor.html
"My two books on the Lost Dutchman Mine are not compilations of other people's stories."
Now unless he is well over 100 years old, or wishes us to believe he has access to some kind of
Time Machine . For the life of me. I cannot understand how his information could be anything else but "compilations of other people's stories".
Which in my opinion, is all they really are, and very much like the infamous version of the "Hatt family story" he published.