Other Lost Dutchman Mines
Blair writes that "here have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz". One Lost Dutchman mine is said to be in Colorado, another in California; two are said to be located in Arizona. Tales of these other Lost Dutchman mines can be traced to at least the 1870s. The earliest Lost Dutchman mine in Arizona was said to have been near Wickenburg, about 180 km (110 mi) north-west of the Superstition Mountains: a "Dutchman" was allegedly discovered dead in the desert near Wickenburg in the 1870s alongside saddlebags filled with gold. Blair suggests that "fragments of this legend have perhaps become attached to the mythical mine of Jacob Waltz".
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