Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atop his other troubles, McElroy lost the services of two men whose expert knowledge has been great help. Lung cancer temporarily sidelined Joint Chiefs Chairman Nathan F. Twining, now convalescing from surgery. Shortly afterward, experienced, science-trained Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles died of a heart attack...
...Barbara Ann Edwards and Lee Barnwell reunited. Two days later, after commencement, commissioning, and a full-dress, crossed-swords wedding at Denver's Christ the King Roman Catholic Church, the couple began their honeymoon. Last week, driving through southwest Colorado toward New Mexico on Colorado Highway 172, Barnwell lost control of his new, red MG roadster. The car overturned, throwing both Barbara Ann and her husband clear. "I'm O.K.," Lieut. Lee Barnwell groggily told a state trooper. "Take care of my wife." The trooper looked down at Barbara Ann, dead on the ground. Said he softly...
...ocotillo. In that land Geronimo, Cochise and their Apaches once roamed, and Superstition Mountain gave them hiding. When the moon is right, its beams shine through two notches flanking a spike of rock called Weaver's Needle. Some say the moonlight points to the location of the Lost Dutchman's gold mine, where men have sought wealth for more than a century-and died in the seeking...
...Lost Dutchman legend begins with Don Miguel Peralta. whose family worked the mine in the in the mid-1800s. According to one version of the story, Don Miguel's pack train of 50 mules and 100 men was attacked and massacred by a band of Apaches, who reburied the treasure to please the thunder god. But one man escaped the ambush, sold a map of the mine to two gringos...
From Waltz came the name "Lost Dutchman's Mine." and since his death in 1891, dozens of adventurers carrying creased, crude maps have gone after the treasure. None of them found it, but more than 30 died trying. In 1931 a retired Government worker set out for Lost Dutchman's. Months later, his bleached skull was found, pierced by a bullet hole. A miner named Williamson, another named Lamb, a magazine writer named Scuelebtz, all followed maps into the Superstition Mountain fastness-and were never seen again. Only two years ago a prospector left his campsite...