Footprints in the Wilderness: A History of the Lost Rhoades Mines
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1980. Revised and expanded edition. 416pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue buckram with gilt titles on the front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. Item #9971
History of Thomas and Caleb Rhoades and their mysterious gold-mining operations in the Uintah Mountains of northeastern Utah. Illustrated with maps, photographs, diagrams, and drawings. According to legend In 1852, Thomas Rhoades was commissioned by President Young to salvage hidden gold known to Ute Indians. Wakara who had been baptized a member of the church, reportedly agreed to reveal the location of the gold if it was used exclusively for the benefit of the church. According to this work Rhoades made several trips into the mountains with an Indian guide. The gold supposedly was from mines abandoned by Spanish entrepreneurs who were in the territory before the 1776 Dominguez/Escalante explorations.
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