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Snowboard's Saga. That map-or drawings purporting to be the map-has been appearing, disappearing and reappearing ever since. In the 1870s a German prospector, Jacob ("Dutchman") Waltz, called "Snowbeard" by the Indians, killed at least five men in getting his hands on the map. For years afterward, Waltz lived with a quadroon girl in an adobe hut in Phoenix, periodically slipped into the crags of Superstition Mountain to replenish his supply of nuggets...
...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 in the middle of a meal and disappeared forever...
Then Benjamin Ferreira turned up again in Honolulu, alone. Fernandez, he explained, had stayed on with an old Arizona prospector, ashamed at his failure. But an unidentified informant told police that Ferreira had killed his partner. Questioned, Ferreira quickly confessed. During one of his arguments with Fernandez, he said, he had knocked his partner down, shot him in the head with a rifle. Complained Ferreira: "All he did was fast-draw, fast-draw-all the time...
Ochlophobia. In Bumble Bee, Ariz, (four houses, one general store), Prospector Don Netherlan, 81, was missing for two weeks, later explained to worried friends:"! just had to get out of the city...
Died. Alexander Malcolm Smith, 99, Scots-born explorer and prospector (for oil and gold), who became a legendary figure in the Canadian northwest and Alaska, once blazed an 1,800-mile trail from Alberta to Dawson in the Yukon Territory, later spent some time in a Soviet jail for prospecting on the fringes of Siberia; in San Jose, Calif...