Buried Treasure by Ken Krippene

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Oldie but goodie.

Buried Treasure by Ken Krippene

Buried treasure (Open Library)

Cover of: Buried treasure by Kenneth Krippene
Buried treasure
the road to gold
1st ed.
Ken Krippene ; illustrated by John Wentworth.
Published 1950 by Permabooks in New York .
Table of Contents
The cat with the crimson eyes
Seminole Bill's big strike in the Big Bend
Cocos Island, fact or fancy?
The lost loot of Pancho Villa
The golden outhouse
Colonel Fawcett's lost world
Treasure-trove of Oak Island
The Red Hill
Dillinger's buried loot
The G-string Buccaneer
The treasure of the liner Merida
Drifting millions in Manila Bay
Emelie, the lost Stradivarius
Black pearls and man-killing octopi
Old Snowbeard's lost gold mine
The girl in the white beret
Gentleman Jean Lafitte's golden hoard
The lost Bowie Mine
The fifty-thousand-dollar postal card
Blade of Damascus
The treasure of Captain Kidd
The Seven Needles
Treasures in your home.

 

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[Gold Maven]

is it good?

 

[Metro Retro]

It looks like this would be a fun (and inspiring) read. Thank you for the recommendation.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Ken Krippene was a writer for many of the men's magazines of the 1950s. He was married to Jane Dollinger, an author in her own right and a model in some of the photos he took to illustrate his articles. She was quite photogenic!

Buried Treasure is fiction, filled with stories you won't read anywhere else because (in my opinion) Krippene made them up. Other yarns in the book may mention historical people, but the information is completely unreliable.

The only good to come from reading this book is to make you aware of legends you'll read about elsewhere.

For example - look at the "Pancho Villa Treasure Map" published here - and then the one in F.L. Coffman's 1001 Lost, Buried and Sunken Treasures. Actually, Mr. Coffman was generous in what he took from Krippene. Too bad he didn't use a more reliable "source."



Krippene's "Buried Treasure"

Coffman's 1001 Lost, Buried and Sunken Treasures


Good luck to all!

~ The Old Bookaroo