THE KILLER MOUNTAINS

by Curt Gentry ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 3, 1968

The Killer Mountains are Arizona's Superstitions, the site of continuing casualties and catastrophes primarily connected with The Lost Dutchman Mine, discovered by a German immigrant Jacob Waltz (1810-1891) who was really a flying Dutchman since many of the legends attending him and his mine have not been pinned down. All through the years thereafter Coronado's children followed the ignes fatui--most recently Glenn Magill, a private investigator, alerted to the mine by a lawyer who later died. Primarily guided by an earlier book (Sims Ely's The Lost Dutchman Mine--1953) and finally securing maps via the son of a man who most nearly discovered it after Waltz and died there, Magill identified the mine: The post-discovery phase included further threats and attempted violence, and it ends dismally, down an empty shaft. . . But it's quite a story of great speculations, great expectations.

Pub Date: June 3, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: New American Library

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION