Dust and Echoes
Help support the Podcast, New Book Launch! 🚀 https://a.co/d/04y1y2lh [https://a.co/d/04y1y2lh] You've heard of "The Lost Dutchman". But have you heard of the more than thirty people have died in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, Arizona, looking for a gold mine that may not exist? On December 10, 1931, a prospector named Brownie Holmes stopped under a palo verde tree six miles into the Superstition Wilderness and found a skull at his feet. The skull had two bullet holes, one small, one large. It belonged to Adolph Ruth, a sixty-six-year-old veterinarian from Washington, D.C. who had walked into those mountains six months earlier with a cane, a loaded pistol, and a set of antique Spanish maps. His pistol was found a quarter mile from his body. Every round was still in the cylinder. The Maricopa County coroner ruled the death natural causes. The Smithsonian anthropologist who examined the skull disagreed, in writing. This is the story of the Lost Dutchman Mine. Of Jacob Waltz, the German prospector who died in a back room in Phoenix in 1891 with a box of gold under his bed and four last clues on his lips. Of the Peraltas who rode up out of Sonora in 1848 and were ambushed to the last man but one. Of Jesse Capen, who walked into the range in 2009 and was found three years later wedged in a crevice. And of the Apache Thunder God tradition that says something underneath those mountains does not want what is underneath to come out. Thirty-plus confirmed deaths. Ninety-four years of pattern. And a mountain that keeps what it keeps. Dust and Echoes is a cinematic Southwestern mystery podcast. Each week, writer and narrator James Cawley tells one rigorously researched story from the American West, where the historical record is incomplete and the answers refuse to arrive cleanly. Listen with headphones.
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