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  The Wailing Wind

  by Tony Hillerman

  Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road -- with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police -- but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the... (more)
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  The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy

  by Kerry Ross Boren

  With the release of this book, the search for the lost Rhoades Mine is narrowed to a few square miles of real estate due east of Kamas, Utah. This gives promise that the greatest of all gold deposits—including remains of Montezuma’s vast treasure—may soon be found. It all began in the mid-1800s when Ute chief Walkara bagged up sixty pounds of raw gold for Mormon bishop Isaac Morley. He took it to Brigham... (more)
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  The Gold of Carre-Shinob

  by Kerry Ross Boren, Lisa Lee Boren

  Utah historian, Kerry Boren, claims to have found the grandest of all Mother Lodes--a hidden cavern inside a monster gold nugget, where Montezuma hid the bigger part of his treasure from Hernando Cortez. The pieces to this fantastic puzzle came together while Boren was studying ancient maps and unpublished journals. Boren's incredible search led him to a remote Uintah Mountain treasure cavern, cursed by the... (more)