Chasing Legends 313: The Peralta Massacre

[@mitchstone56]

The show is more like a Talk Show than a Gold hunting show!

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

Talk show has guests. We do 12 episodes out in the field and we do lives which we talk with our audience and we do this.

[@huntingtimes7732]

Thank You for hiking out and checking. !

[@gabbytorres6885]

I went recently to do some light hiking and rockhounding, and somehow got lost. Which is unlike me especially solo hiking… and I just remember feeling super disoriented and almost euphoric but still nervous because I was lost. I felt so turned around, like everywhere I looked suddenly changed when I looked back in that direction. Like it was a morphing labyrinth that was putting a weird daze over me. Thankfully my phone led me back with the “parked car” feature on maps. It was weird

[@gabbytorres6885]

It was also getting dark and that’s when it started to feel strange. When the sun started going down.

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

We sometimes are our own worst enemy. When you think you are lost you just need a moment. You can always slowly work your way back. We tend to let ourselves to become overwhelmed and stop thinking rationally.

[@glennwebster1675]

That story always intrigued me.... Thank you for sharing it... See you on the Trevor show Friday.......

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

Lol

[@gerardzacharski1296]

I always enjoyed this tale,and the sight it must have been,

[@patmadden8647]

Another good story. Great history. Many thanks

[@diannemc3179]

Great vid. Thanks. Looking forward to garden vly hike. Beautiful hike🌵

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ricinro]

My first overnight trip ('79?) to the flatiron we went past the massacre grounds but we weren't on much of a trail and the hike was miserable. If we had known this area was called the Massacre grounds we would have agreed!

[@MajorCavendish]

Thomas Glover wrote about an expedition in the 1860’s that found several human skeletons and one of them had gold fillings. According to the Holmes version, the Lost Dutchman mine would be a Peralta mine, but I have my doubts.

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

I have an issue with his source on that story. That individual has been the source of a lot of misinformation over the years. I will have to run it by Thomas if he has any other sources for that story than that individual.

[@TheRBW62]

interesting Wayne

[@chrismcnatt1602]

I always thought it was kinda suspicious that the Peralta story sounds a lot like Don Joaquin's Spanish mine in the Estrella mountains and the Massacre that later happened there in 1840s.

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

Yes it does

[@magprob]

Jacob Waltz found the gold of the future Silverlock and Malm. Thats why he went to Florence and had a drywasher built. Silverlock and Malm, later, found peculiar diggings there (Massacre Grounds) and began digging as well. Waltz met a few of the ancestors of the Mexicans that escaped the Massacre, and learned the true story. They worked the area first. Apaches threw the gold out all along the trail coming out of the mountains, even in the Salt River. There may have been 200 to 300 burro loads coming down from the richest mine in the Salt River Mountains. Sorry, doesn't agree with the popular myth. The battle began in Alder Creek Canyon, down to the trail along the Salt River then west to Mormon Flat and then south into the open desert to the Massacre Grounds. The rich mine is up at the headwaters of Alder Creek, high on the mountain on the east side of Four Peaks. The Apache waited until they were in the tight canyon just above the river, then all hell broke loose! At least three Jesuit Priests died, maybe a dozen Spanish soldiers and many slaves and Mexican miners. But, Text without Context is merely Pretext. 99% of the Lost Dutchman Story is Pretext.

[@spirithope]

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[@blueexplorer76]

Mentioned a Homeland Security fence/gate. What would be out there that was considered "National Security"?

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

The dam at Apache lake

[@blueexplorer76]

@@legendofthesuperstitionmou969 lol as if there are terrorists that are planning to blow up dams in the country? Or is this to protect the precious fish population.

[@rosshall312]

Play us a song on one of thought pauls

[@legendofthesuperstitionmou969]

Someday, oneday