The lost Dutchman Mine is one of Arizona’s greatest legends. It is said to be in the Superstition Mountains near Apache Junction and east of Phoenix. The mine was named after a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz which was born in 1810 and he died in 1891. It was named that way because in America a common term for a “German” is “Dutchman”. It is most likely one of the most famous mine in American history. People have been seeking the Lost Dutchman mine since 1892 with an estimated 8,000 people yearly looking for it. The back story of the mine is that Jacob Waltz said that he found a gold mine and told other people that he found a rich gold vein. There are many different versions of the story because of people retelling the story and it getting …show more content…
It is true that a Jacob Waltz did come from Germany because of US documentation saying that he came into the United States in 1848 with the name of Jacob Walz. It is believed that his named changed to be more American. Anyways, he is supposedly born in Württemberg, Germany in 1810, but on Jacob Waltz’s tombstone in Arizona it says he was born in 1808. He moved to Arizona in the 1860s, and he lived on a territory for basically the rest of his life. As he lived there, he pursued mining and prospecting and didn’t have great luck. Another view which better fits the story of the legend and that is that he appeared every once and a while with a lot of gold. There were reports that a Jacob Walzer sold $250,000 worth of gold to the U.S. Mint during the 1880’s and died with $1,500 on him. It is also believed that the Jacob Walzer is Jacob Waltz. He also had a homestead of 160 acres, in 1870, where he operated a farm. This farm was located near Phoenix. In 1891, there a devastating flood that wiped out the Waltz farm. After the flood, it was said that he died of pneumonia from the flood. From …show more content…
He was an amateur explorer and a treasure hunter. He is the most important key for why the Lost Dutchman mine is so famous for a couple reasons that you wouldn’t really expect. The reason why he is so important is because he disappeared when searching for the Lost Dutchman mine. When people went out looking for him they found his body six months later with two bullets in his head. Then the media heard about and it became national news that someone died while searching for the Lost Dutchman mine. After that, a lot of people went to explore the Lost Dutchman mine. Once the news got out The Arizona Republic reported that a human skull was found a doctor wanted to makes sure that it was Ruth. The doctor took many pictures of the skull as well as dental records of Ruth. He did confirm that it is Ruth’s skull and that he got shot with either a shotgun or a high-powered rifle at almost point-blank range with a small hole when the bullet entered the head and a larger hole when the bullet left the head. The rest of the body was found three-quarters of a mile from where the skull was found and with the rest was most of Ruth’s personal items that are a pistol with full ammunition and metal pins that were used to mend his broken bones. The map that he had was said to be missing. There are some theories about Ruth and his death and the police mainly think that he committed suicide but there are some holes in that
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A small town where big things happen in southern Indiana, goes by the name of Bretzville. A place where businesses have begun but have also ended. A place that goes by a German name, still carrying the heritage. This tiny place of Bretzville, located in the middle of Dubois County may look microscopic from a large-scale, but it holds a great deal of history that has affected the way some people live today. Leaving Volksheim, Germany in the spring of 1837, Jacob Bretz and his wife Barbara along with their five sons and nephew began a journey to the United States.
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Name: Joshua Shou Mrs. Farley, Mr. Kennedy Humanities 9 Niemoller November 16th The Effect of Harsh Environment, The Role of Women, and Economical Trade on the Klondike Gold Rush. Have you ever heard of something and thought something was too good to be true, and then you realize it was a fraud all along? The Klondike Gold Rush caused a similar reaction, as over 90,000 prospectors left their jobs and homes to journey into the Klondike in search of Gold to end up empty-handed. During their journey, they had to cope with extreme harsh conditions through Alaska as well as interact and trade with the natives.
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Samuel F.B Morse is an American painter and inventor. He was born on April 27, 1791 by Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese and Jedidiah Morse in (Charlestown) Boston, Massachusetts. His parents called him “Finley”. He was from the United States; he had two wives Elizabeth Griswold and Lucretia Walker. He also had seven children, Susan, Samuel, Charles, Cornelia, William, Edward, and James Morse.
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Ruth whispered to her daughter that burglars broke in and tied her up. The neighbors looked for Ruth’s husband and found him faced down bleeding on the pillow. The police then investigated the crime scene and saw that Ruth had no injuries and no bruises to be found. The detectives then found in Ruth’s husband tools having blood. Then Ruth blamed her insurance businessmen named Judd Gray and the police then tracked him down, and he said that Ruth asked him to bring poisoned whiskey, he blamed it all on her.
The story of Rip Van Winkle, a tale written by Washington Irving, can be considered the first form of American fiction. The author chose this genre as an attempt to attract the reader, presenting an important historic event— the American Revolution— in a way that would be both realistic and didactic to the average American reader. This tale, as told by the author in the introduction, appears to have been found among the belongings of a Dutch historian, Diedrich Knickerbocker. Due to the lack of books during his time, this historian had frequently resorted to men for his research, and in particular to their wives, for he considered them to be "rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history" (29).
Antoine Robidoux was a mountain man, trader, son, husband, brother, and friend. He died on August 29th, 1860 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Antoine was born September 24th, in Forissant, Missouri. He was born a member of a large and influential French-Canadian trading family.
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