{"product_id":"9781555176143","title":"The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy","description":"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. \u003cp\u003eIt 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 Young, who later assigned Thomas Rhoades (under a blood oath of secrecy) to fetch more of the sacred metal for minting coins and decorating temples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gold came from the sacred Ute mines in the Uintah Mountains that were once worked by the Aztecs. In 1520 the Aztecs told Hernando Cortez that their vast hoards of gold came from seven mines far to the north (the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola)leading to Spanish exploration throughout the Uintah Mountains. But the Spaniards had little luck, and the treasure still awaits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover within these pages:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e How modern technology has combined with history and legend to pinpoint the location (within a few square miles) of the Mother Lode of all gold deposits. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The reason Mel Fisher, discoverer of lost Spanish treasure in the Caribbean, came to the Uintah Mountains just before his untimely death. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The government's decision in the early 1900s to reduce the size of the Ute Indian Reservation to make new areas available for mining when F.W.C. Hathenbruck and Caleb Rhoades promised to use mining proceeds to pay off the national debt. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The secret endeavors of Jesse Knight and Reed Smoot to claim the gold mines in the Uintahs for themselves. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The recent sham burial of Ute chief Black Hawk in Spring Lake, Utah, tocover up the secret transfer of his bones to one of the tribe's sacred mines. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Never-before-published maps and detailed letters from those who have been to the mines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  ","brand":"Cedar Fort, Incorporated\/CFI Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300899504368,"sku":"9781555176143","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555176143_p0.jpg?v=1763752994","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555176143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}