Historical Newspaper articles abt KGC

Cccalco,
           GD brings up a really valid point when he says "unlike today's on line version, retractions and corrections often occurred days or weeks after the original article."
           Too often people stop searching through the papers after they find what they think they are looking for.   They really should read through at least several more issues just to make sure.    A case that I can personally point to involves the legend that a safe was swept away from Fool's Gulch and never recovered when the dam at Walnut Creek broke and destroyed Wickenburg, Arizona in 1890.   This legend has appeared in many Treasure Hunting magazines, books, and websites over the years.  Since I live in the area, I thought the safe might be worth looking for......so after confirming some of the details with a set of topographic maps, I went to the Phoenix Public Library and started reading the microfilm copies of the Phoenix and Prescott newspapers for that period.  It did not take me long to verify that the safe had actually been swept away and had not been found (at the time the report was written).  Even better, the information about the safe came from Yavapai County Sheriff Buckey O'Neill, who together with the Maricopa County sheriff who had accompanied him brought the first detailed reports of the flood to Phoenix.   For various reasons' I considered Buckey O'Neill's word to be gold on the subject (and I still do)....Needless to say I really got excited about the prospects.   And the more I read, the more excited I got---Until I got to a flood update 10 to 14 days later where Sheriff Buckey O'Neill reported that the missing safe had been recovered a few days before.....End of my hunt ( but not the end of the hunt for those people who based their search on only the initial report).

     So, just because you think you've found supporting evidence.....keep working the source until you've exhausted ALL the references.

BA


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Gentlemen, I am in no way vouching for the creditability of the newspapers of any century. Much of what passes for news both in the past and now is nothing more that the editorial view of the publishers. I am far more comfortable with the professional transcription of these documents than I am the original documents when it comes to moral integrity and academic standards.   No one has yet shown to me where any of the newspapers were improperly transcribed.
The only supportive evidence that I am using these period papers to support is the fact that the K.G.C. was covered in contemporary periodicals and to offer some insight into what was indeed written of them at that time.

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	The biggest problem here is that its very hard to post any scans from the original papers and make them readable. There just isnt enough data in a 100kb pic.

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		Quote:			Posted by bigwater
	It thrills me to read the stories of the KGC and the prospects of real treasure to be found right here in my own back yard, but yet, it disturbes me to find that a lot of the research people do on this is to repeat the same old newspaper articles over and over.  I mean, look at reply #2 in this very thread.  You've got four articles from four different sources expousing the exact same thing... Not just articles on the same topic... but word for word repititions of the same article.  This does not in any way indicate that the information is a fact.  It indicates that one news source picked up the information from another news source and simply re-printed it.  How do we verify that the ultimate origial writer of the article knew the difference between his butt and a hole in the ground?  Just because it was picked up by umpteen newspapers and reprinted doesn't absolutely imply any bearing on whether there's any truth to it.  Just because the story is expounded on by another writer has absolutely no bearing to whether there's any truth to it.  Show me the money honey, then I'll believe.

The title of this topic is "Historical Newspaper articles abt KGC" It is offered only to show a glimpse into the contemporary coverage of the Knights. The only "redundant" post was the one in which I attempted to show that the "female spy" was picked up and ran again in so many papers as though it was a 19th century AP article.

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Cccalco and Onally, thank you for bringing to our attention the wealth of articles and books, individually valid or not, that have been written over the years on this topic.  For anyone interested in researching KGC, your lists represent good starting points.  Debating the validity of any particular work listed or its usefulness to anyone searching for treasure would probably be best done under a separate topic(s)........And I would LOVE to see a few of those started.

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