The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy

It 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 Rhoadesunder a blood oath of secrecyto fetch more of the sacred metal for minting coins and decorating temples.

The 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 norththe legendary Seven Cities of Cibolaleading to Spanish exploration throughout the Uintah Mountains. But the Spaniards had little luck, and the treasure still awaits.

Discover within these pages:

How modern technology has combined with history and legend to pinpoint the locationwithin a few square milesof the Mother Lode of all gold deposits.
The reason Mel Fisher, discoverer of lost Spanish treasure in the Caribbean, came to the Uintah Mountains just before his untimely death.
The governments 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.
The secret endeavors of Jesse Knight and Reed Smoot to claim the gold mines in the Uintahs for themselves.
The recent sham burial of Ute chief Black Hawk in Spring Lake, Utah, to cover up the secret transfer of his bones to one of the tribes sacred mines.
Never-before-published maps and detailed letters from those who have been to the mines.

I think this book was a great thing because it gives people a chance to hear what Gale Rhoads had said in his book plus more.

This is probably as close to Gale's book as it gets without reading his actual book.

I think everyone should either buy this one or read it from the library.

As for Boren being in prison, what does that have to do with writing a book?

***GOOD BOOK***


Dont waste your money on this one....   January 2, 2003
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It seems that all Boren has managed to do in this book is rehash what has already been written and copy letters that have already been published. If you have read Footprints or any George Thompson books you will be sorely disappointed in this one. No new info, just a redo to generate some $$ while Boren is in jail. And by the way, how is he writing this when he has been in jail for the past 10+ years. This is the randoms ramblings of a man in prison too long.