Roger is good for the entire Dutchman community He always has great insight and a new perspective on things. He's a great researcher too.Jim Hatt wrote: You're good for this forum Roger. You keep me on my toes.
Jim
ok, anyway, back to the thread.
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Roger is good for the entire Dutchman community He always has great insight and a new perspective on things. He's a great researcher too.Jim Hatt wrote: You're good for this forum Roger. You keep me on my toes.
Jim
That story wouldn't surprise me in the least Jim - I suspect there may be a WHOLE BUNCH of those kinds of stories surrounding the legends in those mountains!Jim Hatt wrote:
Zen,
Clay Worst tells a funny story about "A" Holmes map. I'm not sure if it is the same one pictured above or not, but I suspect it is.
According to the story Brownie told Clay. Dick Holmes was out in the mountains somewhere, and ran into a small group of people that appeared to be lost. He stopped to talk to them, and see if they needed help of any kind. They told him that they were looking for a place to camp near water, and could not find water anywhere.
Dick explained that there were only a few places in the mountains where water could be found that time of year, and sat down and drew them a map that showed several major landmarks that could easily be seen and recognized from many parts of the mountains. Right in the center of the map he placed an "X" and told them that they were sure to find a nice place to camp and water there. (That "X" assumed to be Charlebois Spring)
Now the GOOD part.,,
Several years later, Dick was in a bar in town, and someone overheard him mention the LDM to someone else. They promptly approached him and said that they had a map to the LDM, that was positively drawn by the Dutchman himself, and they they would give him a good price if he was interested in purchasing it.
Dick replied that he might be interested, but he would have to have a quick look at it first. They pulled it out and allowed him to have a quick look at it and quickly put it away again.
You guessed it! It was the map Dick had drawn himself, to show that group of people where they could find water!
I suspect this is that map, or a recreation of it.
You need to get Clay to tell the story sometime. He tells it a lot better than I do, and it means a lot more coming from him than it does from me.
Jim