Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine is a 2006 adventure game based loosely around the myth of the Lost Dutchman's Gold; the protagonist, Al Emmo, sets out to locate the mine and recover its riches for Rita Peralto.
• Lust for Gold is a 1949 western film about the mine.
• In "The Lost Dutchman" episode of the NBC Laramie television series, which aired on February 14, 1961, Slim Sherman and Jess Harper (played by series stars John Smith and Robert Fuller) arrive in Jackson City, Wyoming, to purchase cattle from a state senator, George Lake, played by Robert Emhardt. Lake, however, reneges on the deal and is then murdered. Circumstantial evidence points to Slim as the culprit. When Jess sets forth to clear his friend, he comes across several persons seeking to find a cavalry spur that supposedly contains a map to the fabled Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine. Lake was killed for the map, and Jess races to find the decisive spur before Slim can be tried, convicted, and hanged. Karen Steele appears in this episode as Linda Lake.
• The Death's-Head Mine is a 2001 novel inspired by the Peralta legend.
• Dutchman's Gold was a chart hit in 1960 for Walter Brennan.
• Comic book writer/illustrator Don Rosa has written a Scrooge McDuck comic about the mine, called The Dutchman's Secret.
• Lost Dutchman Mine, a 1989 video game for various platforms.
• Elise Broach's novel Missing on Superstition Mountain (2011) uses the Lost Dutchman's Mine as a focal point of the plot.
• French comic book authors Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud had their western hero Lieutenant Blueberry explore for the Lost Dutchman's mine in the 1972 albums La mine de l'Allemand perdu and Le Spectre aux balles d'or (English title was Marshall Blueberry: The Lost Dutchman's Mine, Epic 1991).