Treasure of the Sangre De Cristos: Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest

by Arthur L. Campa, Joe Beeler

Overview

This collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked with bars of gold, mule loads of silver cached away in outlaw hoards, and fabulous Jesuit treasures buried when that order was expelled from New Spain. Some treasure locations would be rediscovered by chance or by an old map-and somehow always lost again.

But not all these folk teasures are of material wealth. There is the story of a nun who loved a soldier and repented, and whose kneeling figure may still be seen as a mountain rock formation. There is the Hermit of Las Vegas, an actual person who, after traveling between Argentina and Quebec, settled in New Mexico, where he became the subject of affectionate legends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806111766
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	09/15/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	1,142,771
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Arthur L. Campa was a widely renowned scholar of southwestern culture and the author of Hispanic Culture in the Southwest. He was Chairman of the Department of Modern Language and Literature at the University of Denver from 1946 until his retirement in 1972.