# Blair 1975: Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend

> Robert Blair, 1975. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The documentary baseline; the project knows it through the Wikipedia summary and page…

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# Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend

Robert Blair, 1975. _Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe_.

The one source-critical history of the legend. Traces the documented Jacob Waltz (an 1848 affidavit, the 1870 homestead, the 1891 death), separates the Peralta, Dr Thorne and soldiers' stories that were later fused into the tale, shows the Peralta mine was in California and that no Dr Thorne served the Army, and argues the whole has been garbled by retelling.

**Lost Dutchman's gold mine** Book0

## What it's used for here

The documentary baseline; the project knows it through the Wikipedia summary and page citations and a person should read it directly.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[There was no mine; an old man's deathbed talk, perhaps with a small cache, grew into a composite legend.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/answers/ANS0D0G0E7C6G0H/there-was-no-mine-an-old-mans-deathbed-talk-perhaps-with-a)

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[Robert Blair publishes Tales of the Superstitions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/events/EVT0D0G09TR2MX7/robert-blair-publishes-tales-of-the-superstitions)

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[Robert Blair](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/people/FIG0D0G07W82B8Q/robert-blair)

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[The Lost Dutchman's gold mine](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine)

The mystery article

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[Did Jacob Waltz have a gold mine in the Superstition Mountains?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0B1T7EHP/did-jacob-waltz-have-a-gold-mine-in-the-superstition)

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[Is there any basis for the Peralta mine and the Peralta stones?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-dutchman-mine/questions/QST0D0G0BS853ZP/is-there-any-basis-for-the-peralta-mine-and-the-peralta)

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## Cite it

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Blair, R. (1975). Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman's Legend. Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe. https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Tales+of+the+Superstitions+Blair+1975
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[Find it at openlibrary.org](https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Tales+of+the+Superstitions+Blair+1975)

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