Thunder Gods Gold. The Amazing True Story Of America's Most Famous Lost Gold Mines, Epitome Of Western Traditions

BARRY STORM

Publication: Southwest Publishing Company, 1945, Tortilla Flat, Arizona

First edition. 8vo. Treasure Trail Edition. Tan cloth, titles stamped in brown on the front cover and spine, 166 pp. frontispiece, illustrated mostly from photographs, maps. appendix. Discusses many of the famous gold mines including Superstition, Ruth's Spanish Mine, Lost Peralta Mines, Lost Dutchman Mine, et al. Basis for the 1949 Columbia Pictures film "Lust For Gold," that starred Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan, Will Geer, Paul Ford, et al. One of the few American Westerns in the film noir cycle. Fine, bright copy in a fine, bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a two-tone quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. An exceptional copy.

Inventory Number: 49408