Estee Conatser

The copyright of 1972 helps to explain why I found this book both interesting and challenging, but it didn’t challenge me to try to find the mine. The first thing that bothered me is that Jacob Walzer was a German immigrant. She never explains that Germany is known as Deutschland, and it is likely that this was confused with Dutchman, to end up calling him a Dutchman. Second, I would have appreciated better documentation for the few known “facts” of his life including the supposed verified $250,000 of gold that he shipped to the U. S. Mint between 1880 and 1889, and I feel that Arizona Territory should have more than one Territorial Census, that should have mentioned Jacob.

However, I feel that she did considerable in-depth research, included the stories of many legends, tested many theories, and presented the rationale for her conclusions in a very understandable way.… (plus d'informations)