Novice To Gold Coin: Successful Treasure Hunting With Inexpensive Metal Detectors is dedicated to helping people with low cost metal detectors and people new to the hobby of metal detecting be more successful in finding hidden treasures. Available online for the first time, this black and white version of my full color book contains dozens of photos of my finds. Covered are personal adventures and successes I have had. You will learn what I learned. Following the methods I used will see you making older and older coin finds. This book is filled with metal detecting tips and tricks gleaned...

Dubuque Iowa's Forgotten Gold - When Old Tom Kelly died in 1867, newspapers across the country carried stories of the legend of the rich hermit. This book is a collection of those old articles. The book is a compilation of these articles, reproduced as written to convey the writing style of the times when they were printed. Several versions of the legend of the gold hidden by Old Tom Kelly are out there; who can say what is the truth about this hidden treasure legend? What is known for sure is that a man named Tom Kelly mined lead ore in the Dubuque, Iowa, area from 1833 until his death...

ON THE TRAIL OF THE BENDERS is the account of the grisly details of the mass murders perpetrated by the Bender Family in Kansas and what happened to them after their crimes were discovered. Their story is told through a series of newspaper accounts from the time. On April 3, 1873, a party of men rode up to this roadside tavern and asked the Bender family if they had heard or seen anything of the missing Dr. York. They claimed to be ignorant of his whereabouts. A few days afterward, another party called and made the same inquiry. The Bender family, fearing that they were suspected, hitched up...