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mattherrington
mattherrington
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11/4/2015
mattherrington
mattherrington
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So... after wandering around the western edge of the park I eventually tracked down the (out of print and somewhat rare) complete writings of Marshall South consisting of the Desert magazine articles themselves, letters to the editor, and misc stories. Fantastic pictures of living on Ghost Mountain, BTW.

While most Santa Rosa treasure stories still existing (which were published in the late 40's as well) are secondhand or worse tales of pocket gold surrounding Rockhouse Cyn one of particular interest was a Marshall South story about finding the lost emerald mine. MS wrote a pretty loosely detailed account of their expedition, where they started, what they found and such. In the end it proved simply an adventure as they found the old indian mine area covered by landslide but found the tell-tale geographic features, a grave uncovered by the slide, beryl, and a very small emerald.

I'd love to validate this 1948 story and to put a picture to his sketch. Anybody know this story? How do I share this stuff with others here without accidentally encouraging some knucklehead to be out there digging holes for me to fall into some night?
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