Swifts Silver Mines And Related Appalachian Treasures PDF Download

This book contains 85 stories of Lost Mines and Treasurers, in the Appalachian States, covering the States of Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Many of the stories concern treasurers buried by the French, British, Indians and Colonial settlers during the many wars that rocked the area in the 18th and 19th centuries. It also contains an Appendix covering what I have found to date on Swift's Silver Mine, an old legend of the border area of Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, with some stories extending into West Virginia. Because of the coverage of multiple areas, which are included in by multiple books and the number of Counties involved, I have shown it as an Appendix in the books that covers the areas discussed - the "legend" impacts 15 counties in this book alone. I found the data for this book while doing research on old mines for my series of books Mines of the American West. The "Lost Mines and Treasurers" were identified from articles in early American newspapers and other sources considered reliable. Where possible, for those lost treasures still to be found, I have tried to tie them to modern mines or areas and include some background data on such areas. In doing this, some of them seemed to "fall short" in the area of fact and logic. The reader should understand that this is a collection of data from old and new publications and not a focused specifically on the effort to find the specific properties, although some research, especially from a logic standpoint, has been done. If the reader can glean critical information from these original articles and the limited research that allows or helps him or her to locate a "lost mine" or "lost treasure", I wish him or her well and leave it to them to reap the rewards.The print version of this book has been produced in the 81⁄2" X 11" format to keep the price low. If done in 6" X 9" or smaller, the book would be 2 or 3 times as many pages in length and would cost substantially more to increased "on demand" print costs. These seem to be heavily influenced by the total number of pages. While this may be one of the seeming drawbacks to "on-demand printing", the benefit of "on-demand printing" is that specialty books, such as this, are now practical to publish where the target market may be relatively small and minimal returns to the author are acceptable.