Spider Rock Treasure Article - Wichita Falls Times, October 13, 1963, Page 70

[PatrickD]

Hi Everyone,

I have been researching old newspaper articles for a project. I ran across this on the Texas Spider Rock treasure and thought it was worth sharing.

The article is in a PDF.

Enjoy,

Patrick

 

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[UncleMatt]

This is a very interesting story, but they only showed one map.

 

[Randy Bradford]

Thanks for the PDF, great stuff....

 

[Springfield]

The article's writer, Steve Wilson, wrote a well-known book about the Spider Rock treasure. He also wrote a terrific book on Oklahoma treasure tales - highly recommended.

 

[Randy Bradford]

The article's writer, Steve Wilson, wrote a well-known book about the Spider Rock treasure. He also wrote a terrific book on Oklahoma treasure tales - highly recommended.

Cannot agree more Springfield. Wilson's treatment of the Spider Rock Treasure represents, in my opinion, the single best book on any buried treasure ever written. It's not a book for everyone though. It's dense and dry, but in terms of presenting evidence in a scholarly fashion it has no equal. Wilson has taken a topic that many historians would have dismissed outright and provided an exhaustive and academic list of sources and evidences. Honestly, this book is the prototype for what I'd like my treatment of Montezuma's treasure to look like. Wilson has amassed 5 decades of his own work and 5 decades of others historical analysis to provide the single best example of how a controversial topic like buried treasure can still be treated with respect and academic thoroughness. Sorry...didn't mean to run on...

 

[UncleMatt]

thanks for the book suggestion, I just ordered it

 

[Corporate Investigations]

Interesting story.

I can't say I am well versed on the story. However I can confirm the claimed discoverers of the stone existed. Dave M Arnold was a Farmer living in Texas in 1900. He married had children in 1920 and was still recorded living in Texas until the 1930s. His alleged financial backer Dr Caleb Lafond Terrell did exist. However his date of death in not known at this stage. There is only one record of him in the 1870 census.

Amy

 

[Caarcaar]

Interesting story.

I can't say I am well versed on the story. However I can confirm the claimed discoverers of the stone existed. Dave M Arnold was a Farmer living in Texas in 1900. He married had children in 1920 and was still recorded living in Texas until the 1930s. His alleged financial backer Dr Caleb Lafond Terrell did exist. However his date of death in not known at this stage. There is only one record of him in the 1870 census.

Amy

In case anyone is looking at this and wants to know about Dr. Terrell.