the blindbowman
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Cubfan64 said:his camp and the killings happend at or near the mine it self .. and all 5 of these markers are
So what you're saying is that Waltz killed 5 people near his mine, buried them and then decided to mark their graves in some way? I assume his reason for doing that is due to some sense of remorse after the fact?
That's a tough one to believe.
Incidentally, I believe the 2 soldiers bodies were found long ago - Jim Bark passed along the story of how one boy's body was found on the QCU ranch and was simply buried there by the finders. The other body was found not long after by Bluff Springs.
There is a fairly convincing story of how someone who worked at the Silver King went missing around the same time the 2 soldiers left to go back to the mine - he showed up not long after and was seen gambling with more $ than he had ever been seen with before. The person of interest ended up getting run out of town and stories have him ending up in Alaska where prior to his death he passed along information regarding the mine to another person who went searching for it in coming back to Arizona also.
Lots and lots of stories - find the wheat in the chaff
interesting , i beleive the two stories are two diffrent events ,, the soldiers waltz killed were ealry from fort mcdowell, haveing nothing to do with the event you just stated ..i have read the event your talking about and your details are very close to the known story .and i gree but these two events take place at diffrent times ,the event i am talking about relates to two peice of data . one the waltz acount to dick homles and the other being the death of wiser , in the dick homles acount the death of the soldiers comes before he makes note tht he did not kill his partner ,asumeing he is talking about wiser , this would mean the two soldiers he refers to is not the same as your event , it leds me to beleive the two soldiers he is talking about came some time shortly after he killed the prealta if that was the case .at this piont i have to beleive he did kill the prealta as stated in the acount even if waltz him self dose not make the clam of whom those 3 people were ..based on the mines location and the location of the grave sites ,, i will say these markers are easy to over look unless your right there beside them ...
its funny you said that cub the only grave not marked the same way is the nephew....because the shelveing rock over hang the grave site as in the acount ...thats what tells me i am on the right track ... waltz would have marked the site like the others . yet he gives us a detailed acount of the killing that dose match the nephew site dirrectly . yet remember the acount of the prealta killings .. they tookplace in a give order .. two at the same time and then one a short time after .. yet two of the graves were said to be near the capm site and this is the case of site 4 , finding the other near by some distence from the other two .in this matter i beleive the 3rd was not at the mine it self . he had gone to get supplies and when retruned waltz shot him , in fact he would have came from the same dirrection as the prospector and this would make both their graves closer togather and this is the case ...
i believe and it is my own opioion that waltz killed two prealta and the last prealta was checking up on the missing family members ,bringings supplies to the mine ...
there are a few details that built this under standing of the events .. one is the prealta details of the sombrero mine and the events recorded by the families histroy , another is the acounts of the raids and indain masseacres that took place at the time of the prealta sombrero mines closeing ..
and another was the recorded owner of the lan at the time of these events was related to the prealta families . noteing pedro own the land from 1609 and still was own by pralta in 1848.. noteing i dated the tayopa site from 1535 -1609 but the mine it self would have been worked for a very short time . say between 1595-1606, and then worked by the prealta in 1848 for only about 3 years ...
i think waltz found the sombrero did not know it was the tayopa saw the tayopa chruch but did not put the two togather at the time thus referd to the site as a chruch grant ,not stateding what chruch it was because he really did not note of any chruch that old in the area at the time .. but few would have known that the tayopa was even in that area ...and no one would have told if they did know ...
thus waltz would have found the chruch i did ...and stated it was a chruch grant ,he just couldnt figer out what chruch it was ...look at what i have gone threw to find out what chruch this is and i have a modern computer ...lol
i think this may have been why waltz keep the site so hiden . he was afrade that he would have been hanged for stilling from a chruch.. not fully under standing the related chruch to the mine it self history ...
i have no dout this is where the tayopa and the chruch and the sombrero mines ended up ... these legends got twisted and became confuseing ...
yet there is a simple answer ...
the legends all relate to one site ...
that had 4 diffrent names threw the years that the legends took place ....over a time span from about 1535 - to 1891
so it leds me to beleive the acount your talking about is the two soldiers that find the mine and sell oro and then latter are killed and robed for their money ..and yes the men thaught to have done that was later seen in a bar ...and confronted ...
but as i stated i beleive these are two diffrent sets of soldiers in question ...the ones i am refering to would have taken place in around 1871-1876 with in a year or so ...IMHO