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Word: peralta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: Search for Last Dutchman's | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...operation for removal of a brain blood clot; in Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian mountain, wore blue jeans, sadly observed: "Dancing partners aren't what they used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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