Hershell Eversole´s new book, Treasures Of The Lonesome Gods, is an accurate and interesting history of The Great Southwestern Sonoran Desert. It is a record of both the ancient and modern copper mining town of Ajo, Arizona. There are accounts of wild outlaws, fierce Indians, early pioneers, brave explorers, buried treasures, lost mines, and mysterious legends of the ancient Papago Indians. Titles of a few chapters are listed below:
The Beginning
A Story That Became a Legend
Melchior Diaz
Father Kino
A Land Grant
Montezuma Gold
Another Montezuma Tale
A Papago Indian Legend
Gunsight
Old Ajo & Professor McGahan
Mikul Levy
Majesty of The Desert
Peter Rainsford Brady
The Adams Diggings
The Ajo Area Mines
Desert Caves, Shafts and Tunnels
John Greenway’s Appearance in Ajo
A Desert Water Well
A Man, A Town & Post Offices
The Freight Wagons
Lady Liberata
Mike Curley
Robert Gray
Jasper Meadows
Kitty Wood
A Desert Railroad
The Sonoran Desert
Louis D. Ricketts
Sonoran Desert Roads In the Ajo Area
The Papago Medicine Man
The Gringo Word
John Brown
James H. Williams
Jack Peterson
David S. Wine
Crater Range
Lukeville
Lost Indian Gold
Kangaroo Rats of The Ajo Desert
John The Baptist
The Movers & Shakers
Frank Luke
A Papago Look At Death
Why
The Aloe Vera Plant
John D. Williams
Frances Carrera
Joseph Lemieux
An Ajo Gun Fight
Thomas B. Hinton
Kitt Peak
Legend Of The Vulture
A Bank Robbery
An Indian Legend
Ajo Thundereggs
The Planned Train Robbery
An Indian’s Lost Mine
Camels in The Desert
The Seri Indians
The Lard Can
Dinosaurs On The Sonoran Desert.
There are dozens of other great tales for those who love reading true adventures of the early American West. This is a book that will be read over and over. It will be treasured for many years.