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The Lost Ship In The Desert

The Lost Ship of the Desert. In the Coachella Valley, cupped by the San Bernardino Mountains you'll find The Salton Sea, The Algodones Sand Dunes,. He said he had heard stories of such ships, especially the one of the Spanish galleons being lost in the desert many times. He said that in 1933, however, it had.

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After the game Dorn's niece Elsa Dorn asks him if he will sell back the watch. She eventually tells Bat it has the location of a treasure ship lost in the desert in a sand storm. While talking with her, Dorn returns with his two companions who knock out Bat wanting to kill him but Dorn forces them to take him to a doctor. Bat trails them into the desert finding Elsa during a sand storm alone saying her uncle was wounded but the two men. Bat and Elsa stumble onto the lost ship uncovered by the storm. Inside they find the treasure but the.

The 'Lost Galleon'The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of.

It could easily be viewed at a distance of several miles from a mesa that lay between Dos Palmas and Palma Seca, California. The stories have given Palma Seca other names:, and Bitter Springs, as the area was not well mapped in 1870. Expeditions were sent out in search of her, but the ship had apparently vanished into the sand and mud once again. The Galleon, according to legend, is now under the waters of the modern.There are those who claim the ship is 's Content, filled with pirate plunder; others claim that she is the Iqueue, a ship of.Pearl ship of Juan de IturbeThis legend may refer to the same ship as the Lost Galleon, but its own story has always placed it in a distinct location, closer to the sand hills west of. Descriptions suggest it is closer to the size of one of ' small. The pearl ship is rumored to have been seen as recently as the 1970s.The story goes that in 1615, Spanish explorer Juan de Iturbe embarked on a pearl-harvesting expedition, during which his crew sailed a shallow-drafted caravel up the Gulf of California.

A high carried him across a strait into, a postulated contemporaneous saltwater basin periodically connected to the gulf which was already in the process of drying up permanently. After exploring the lake for several days, Iturbe found himself unable to sail out again, whereupon he beached his craft and made his way back to the nearest Spanish settlement on foot, leaving behind a fortune in black pearls.

Sixteenth-century records from indicate that the De La Cadena family had a pearl-diving monopoly in.Iturbe's alleged ship has been seen and lost several times, and there are several stories about it having been looted. A mule driver traveling with the through was said to have removed the pearls in 1774.

In 1907, a farmhand named Elmer Carver noticed odd-shaped fence posts while working on Niles Jacobsen's farm in. Jacobsen claimed a wind storm had revealed the remains of a ship, which the Jacobens had repurposed into a fence. Jacobsen had also found gems which he sold in Los Angeles.

The Viking ship, or the 'Serpent-Necked Canoe'The Viking stories originated around 1900 from the Mexicans and Indians who live in the Colorado River delta region near the basin. The ship is consistently described as an open boat with round metal shields on its sides in the badlands west of.Around 1933, Myrtle Botts, a librarian from, had an encounter with an old prospector who reported seeing a ship lodged in the rock of Canebrake Canyon. He described the vessel as a Viking ship made of wood with a serpentine figure carved in its prow. He gave her and her husband directions to the location but an earthquake prevented the Botts from following the prospector's trail to the ship. Julian's Pioneer Museum, which inherited Myrtle Botts' papers, also inherited those directions.The Julian Pioneer Museum is not in possession of any records regarding the Viking ship mentioned in this story. According to The Last of Seris (Dane Coolidge, 1939), the indigenous people of reportedly encountered whalers visiting from far away, possibly a reference to Norsemen visiting the west coast of Mexico prior to the Spanish.

The ferry boat or river schoonerThis story grew out of an effort to explain or debunk the Lost Galleon story. It is thought that an abandoned ferry or steamboat that had broken away during a Colorado River flood and had been left dry in the vast sands of the river delta is the origin of the rumors. Others claim that it was a schooner that gold-seekers wishing to search the more inaccessible portions of the Colorado River had built in Los Angeles and hauled through the desert by a mule or oxen team until the animals perished, leaving the boat mired in soft sand.The ferry boat story changed over time more often than the Lost Galleon story. One incarnation said that a small ferry (a two-man sweep) was built away from the river in a place a hundred feet or so above sea level, where a source of wood was found, and that a team of six (or more) oxen perished hauling it through the sand near Los Algodones. Evaluation of the legends. From a smattering of first-, second- and third-hand accounts, a variety of fictional (especially graphic and cinematic) variations of the Lost Ship stories have been created. Not surprisingly, the first-hand accounts are extremely rare.

Many of the above references fit the and molds, where the story passes from ear to ear with all evidence disappearing along the way.Searching for and finding the remains of a Lost Ship is now rather problematic. The greater part of the has been submerged under the since 1905, and much of the adjacent land is under military control and has even been used for bombing ranges, rendering on-the-ground searches highly hazardous and/or illegal.Lands adjacent to in, and between the and the Salton Sea, regularly receive wind-blown sand from the desiccated delta of the much-diverted, generating vast sand dune systems. Aerial searches using ground-penetrating radar might reveal ships' remains, but there has not yet been an agency that undertook this project and revealed its findings. Whether or not any such ships actually existed, the legends persist and remain entertaining to many.Around AD 1500, the lake was 26 times the present size of the Salton Sea. It has flooded and dried eight times between 1824 and 1905. In 1540 Spanish explorer Diaz was in the area, and by 1700 to 1750 the lake had infilled.

Presently there is a 'high ground' in Northern Mexico, of 23 feet, or 6+m. Thus a ship of 8 foot draft would need to have an additional 30 feet of water, above 'sea level'.

While 'king tides' of summer and winter are the highest, and conceivably a storm surge could add further water building up, wind-blown up the Sea of Cortez, 30 feet of additional depth seems highly unlikely.Media renditions of Lost Ship stories. This is a media timeline list of material related to the 'lost ship' in the California desert; it shows how the story has changed in each generation's telling.Note: Although most written items are a paragraph or more long, and sometimes lengthy articles, some are only a brief sentence or two in passing of what the author had heard and thought about a ship in the desert story.1800s 1870The Galaxy, V.10, No.1, Jan. 1870 (New York newspaper)'In the Valley of the Shadow' by Albert S. EvansReprinted 1873 in Evans' book, 'A la California, Sketches of Life in the Golden State.' . Autumn of 1863 – Evans' horse died, leaving him to walk out from the Colorado Desert's Dos Palmas westward toward Palma Seca, where Evans saw the lost ship.1870Los Angeles News, Aug. 1870 (California newspaper)'Interesting Discovery'(see: 1953 Nov.

'The Calico Print'). Indians report a ship emerging from a drying alkaline marsh.1870Sacramento Union, Oct. 6, 1870 (California newspaper)'Dateline Los Angeles?' (see: 1977 July Lost Treasure magazine). Article about men from San Bernardino seeking the ship.1870Sacramento Union, Oct.

13, 1870 (California newspaper)'Dateline Los Angeles?' (see: 1977 July 'Lost Treasure' magazine). Article about ship hunters returning without discovery.1870Sacramento Union, Nov. 16, 1870 (California newspaper)'Dateline Los Angeles?' (see: 1977 July 'Lost Treasure' magazine).

Article about new search for fossil boat.1870Proceedings of California Academy of Sciences, Nov. 21, 1870(California journal) notes of regular monthly meeting. Albert S. Evans tells about the two different times he saw the ship; not a mirage, nor Martin Vise's oxen-hauled schooner.1870Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20, 1870 (Chicago, Illinois newspaper)'Finding of the desert ship'.

report of a ship found on the Colorado desert1870San Bernardino Guardian, Dec. 31, 1870 (California newspaper)'The Search for the Lost Ship'(see: 1953 Nov. 'The Calico Print'). Joshua Talbot leaves Clusker party, having found nothing.1871San Bernardino Guardian, Jan. 14, 1871 (California newspaper)'Return of the Ship Prospectors'(see: 1953 Nov. 'The Calico Print').

The Clusker party returns, not having found the ship.1871Proceedings of California Academy of Sciences, July 3, 1871(California journal) notes of regular monthly meeting. Author concludes based on correspondence that the ship is an optical illusion.1871Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Oct.

8-9(Worcester, Massachusetts journal) notes of annual meeting. A report on what the California Academy of Sciences had previously reported.1872Sacramento Union, Sept. 30, 1872 (California newspaper)'Dateline Los Angeles?' (see: 1947 'Gold Guns & Ghost Towns' by Chalfant). The 'Arizona' desert ship proves to be a ferryboat.1873Inyo Independent, Sept. 27, 1873 (California newspaper)'? '(see: 1977 July 'Lost Treasure' magazine).

James expedition found mast of ship.1873A La California: Sketches of life in the Golden State(book - chapter IX, pg 201) by Albert S. Evans, 1873. Same as Evans' 1870 'Shadow of Death' newspaper account; this book was published after his death at sea.1874The Ship in the Desert(book of verse / poem) by, 1874published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and by Chapman & Hall, London. The British edition is not quite the same as the American edition; Miller rewrote his poem.

Men battle over a beautiful Indian maiden; everyone dies at the ship in the desert.1875'The Ship in the Desert'(poem) by W. Grant & Pap Walkerwritten in 1875, Olancha, California.published in Desert Padre (book) by Joan Brooks, 1997. The desert ship as a sort of Flying Dutchman in Death Valley.1878On the Frontier: Reminiscences of Wild Sports, Personal Adventures, and Strange Scenes(book, pg 244) by J. Campion, 1878.

Mission Indians & Monks of Lower California have a tradition of a wreck freighted with gold from Arizona - the Spanish 'El Dorado'Author knew of two well-equipped expeditions that nearly perished of thirst while searching for the ship near Dos Palmas, California.1881Reminiscences of a Ranger, or Early times in Southern California(book, pg 423) by Major Horace Bell, 1881. Story about Joshua Talbot finding a mule-hauled boat built by Perry & Woodworth of Los Angeles.1886Chicago Tribune Sept. 12, 1886 (Chicago, Illinois newspaper)'Whence came the ship?' . A MYSTERY OF THE FAMOUS SO-CALLED COLORADO DESERT1886Atlanta Constitution Sept.

20, 1886 (Atlanta, Georgia newspaper)'The Stranded Ship'. a mystery of the famous so-called Colorado desert1886Boston Daily Globe, Sept.

26, 1886 (Boston, Mass. Newspaper)'Whence the ship?'

Pg 17. A Mystery of the Colorado Desert. Unsuccessful Effort of a Prospector to Examine the Hulk.

A Padre's Theory that it May Have Been a Gold-Laden Galleon.1889American Notes and Queries, Sept. 14, 1889 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, magazine)Ed. By William S. Walsh: 'The Ship in the Desert'. Story about finding frame of small two-sweeper ferry boat that was hauled by half a score or more of bull-teams which mostly perished.1889Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1889 (Los Angeles, Calif.

Newspaper)'The Ship of the Desert'. The Phantom ship of California1889Sandusky Daily Register, Nov.

16, 1889 (Sandusky, Ohio newspaper)'The Phantom Ship'. The hulk buried in the sands of the Colorado desert1890Atlanta Constitution, July 27, 1890 (Atlanta, Georgia newspaper)'A Ship of the Desert' by Paul Grant. a traveler had found in the desert of Colorado a dismantled ship1891Ohio Democrat, Jan. 8, 1891 (New Philadelphia, Ohio newspaper). a Mysterious Vessel said to have been seen in the Colorado desert1891Galveston Daily News, Feb.

1, 1891 (Galveston, Texas newspaper)'A Ship in the desert'. Strange tale of a Spanish Galleon in Colorado desert. This article was printed nationwide and was the inspiration for John Blondelle Burton.1891The Standard, Feb. 10, 1891 (Ogden, Utah newspaper)'A ship in the desert'. Strange tale of a Spanish Galleon1891Los Angeles Times, Mar. 1, 1891 (Los Angeles, Calif. Newspaper)'A ship in the desert'.

Strange tale of a Spanish Galleon1892Manual of Geography(book, pg 95) by Jacques W. Redway, 1892. In the sink of the San Felipe, or Conchilla, Valley, the ship is beyond doubt the frame of a ferry boat designed for the Colorado River. The teams dragging it to the river died. The ship's projector (promoter?) was living in 1885.1892Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892 (Great Britain journal)Jacques W. Redway: 'New Lake in The Colorado Desert'. Blames the legend on Joaquin Miller, and refers to Maj.

Horace Bell.1895The Ship in the Desert(book) by John Blondelle Burton, 1895. Historical adventure fiction based on newspaper story.1900s 1909National Geographic Magazine, Aug. Mendenhall: 'The Colorado Desert'. mentions a widely published and graphic 1891 Lost Ship account.1916History of Arizona Book IV(book, pg 31) by Tomas E. Farishchapter: 'Charles B. Genung – His Story of how he became a Hassayamper'.

Hassayamper is synonym for Arizonian Liar.1919Los Angeles Examiner, June 15, 1919 (Los Angeles Calif. Guthrie: 'Mystery of the Desert'(see: 1953 Nov. 'The Calico Print'). Tells Coahuilla Indian Chief Cabazon's version.1928Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1928 (Los Angeles Calif.

Newspaper)'The Lost Ship of the Desert'. It was that ole buzzard, 'Quartz' Warner, that swore by all the howling bobcats that he seen It.1933Journey of the Flame(book) by Walter Nordhoff under the pen name Antonio De Fierro Blanco(see: 1961 'Desert Rat Scrap Book, Packet 1 of Pouch 11'). One of the most quoted sources for Pearl Ship stories.1939Desert Magazine, Jan. 1939 (Palm Desert, California magazine)Ed.

By Randall Henderson: 'Lost Ships: Fact or Fiction'+ Charles C. Niehaus: 'Lost Ship of the Desert'1940Golden Mirages(book, pg 139) by Phillip Bailey, 1940chapter: 'Lost Ship of the Desert'1941The Colorado Conquest(book) by David O. Woodbury, 1941(see: 1950 'Desert Rat Scrap, Packet #3 of Pouch #3)1941(NBC radio broadcast)aired Jan 24, 1941, #533: 'The Lost Pearl Ship'1942Marvel Mystery Comics #29, Mar. Comic book)Mickey Spillane: 'The Ship in the Desert'.

This was a short written story used as filler between comics, and locates a galleon near1947Gold, Guns, & Ghost Towns(book, pg 164) by Walter Chalfant (aka Willie Arthur Chalfant), 1947. Has story of the lost Pearl Ship of Juan de Iturbe1948Arizona Highways magazine, Apr.

1948 (Phoenix, Arizona magazine)article, pg 4: 'The Ship in the Desert,' by Norman G. Wallace. At the time the railroad was being built down the west coast of Mexico, engineer Bill Walters met with Indian Juan Pablo (a.k.a.

Khave the badger). Juan Pablo showed Bill pearls, china dishes, and gold coins taken from a ship half-buried in the sand hills of the Arizona mountain Pinacate.1949Chillicothe Constitution Tribune April 6, 8, and 9, 1949 (Chillicothe, Missouri newspaper)'Pop goes the queen': Newspaper serial story written by Bob Wade and Bill Miller. Fictional story of a murder involving an 18th-century Spanish treasure galleon, which sailed up the flooded Colorado river in 1744.1949Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1949 (Los Angeles, California newspaper)(see: June 8, 2003 Los Angeles Times). Three UCLA students search for a Viking exploration ship blown off course.1950Action Comics #146, July 1950 (U.S. Comic book)Joe Smachson: 'Vigilante, The Galleon in the Desert'. Musical villain using fake desert galleon like a Trojan horse; caught by musical hero.1950Desert Rat Scrap Book, Packet #3, Pouch #3, 1950ed.

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By Harry Oliver: 'The Spanish Galleon At The Bottom Of The Salton Sea'1950Western Folklore, Vol. 3, 1950 (Long Beach, California journal of Western States Folklore Society)'New Tales of American Phantom Ships'. Story is of an boat flying over the near.1950Dell Comics: 'Gene Autry Comics, Vol. 39, May 1950 (U.S. Comic book)'The Lost Galleon'.

Story of how the Conquistadors lost a ship in the desert near Laguna Salada south east of San Diego1951Dell Comics: Gene Autry Comics, Vol. 52, June 1951 (U.S. Comic book)'Gene Autry and the Ship in the Desert'.

Story has Autry finding ship in ancient river channel after a flash flood.1951The Indio Date Palm, Oct. 4, 1951 (Indio, California newspaper)Paul Wilheilm: 'Paul Wilheim's Desert Column – A Ghost of the Vikings'(see: 1953 Nov. 'The Calico Print')1951Pioneer Cabin News (Nov. 1952) (San Bernardino, California journal of the San Bernardino Society of California Pioneers)O.J. Fisk: 'Story of the Pearl Ship in the Desert'(see: 1953 Nov. 'The Calico Print')1951Legendary and Geological History of Lost Desert Gold(book, pg 66) by Ralph L.

Caine, 19511953-San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, Feb. 15, 1953 (San Bernardino, California newspaper)L. Burr Belden: 'The Lost Spanish Galleon'(see: 1953 Nov.

'The Calico Print')1953'Casey Ruggles,' May 23, 1853 – Jan. 2, 1954 (syndicated daily U.S.

Newspaper cartoon strip)Warren Tufts: 'The Pearl Galleon Episodes'1953The Calico Print, Nov. 1953 (Twenty Nine Palms, California magazine)Ed.

By Harold & Lucille Weight: 'Lost Ship in The Desert'+ Ed Stevens: 'The Serpent-Necked Canoa'+ Adelaide Arnold: 'Butcherknife Ike and the Lost Ship'+ reprints several other well-known Lost Ship accounts1954Uncle Scrooge Adventure, Sept. 1954 (Walt Disney comic book)Carl Barks: 'Seven Cities of Cibola'1957Lost Treasures: The Search for Hidden Gold(book, pg 48) by Robert G. Ferguson, 19571959Bat Masterson, starring Gene Barry (NBC television program)original air date: July 15, 1959Richard O'Conner & Wells Root, writers: 'The Desert Ship'1961Desert Rat Scrap Book, Packet #1 of Pouch #11, ed.

By Harry Oliver'The Spanish Galleon Of Salton Sea', by Antonio de Fierro Blanco1962Suspense, starring Matt Cooper, Bill Adam, & Jean Gillespie (CBS Radio Program)original Air date Aug. 26, 1962'The Lost Ship' episode was written by Irwin Lewis1962More Western Treasures(book) Jesse Rascoe, editorchapter – 'The Lost Ship of the Desert'1962The Beckoning Desert(book) by Ed. Ainsworth, 1962. Tells of the 1949 search for Joseph Ive's lost steamship.1963Lost Desert Bonanzas(book, pg 12) by Eugene L.

Conrotto, 1963. Written to mark 25 years of Desert Magazine's lost mine stories.1966Buried Treasures and Lost Mines of Southern California(book, pg 90) By Jack Black, 1966chapter: 'A Handful of Mysteries'1966Desert Magazine, March 1966 (Palm Desert, California magazine)D. Galbraith: 'Lost Ships of the Desert' (??)+Bill Boyd: 'Lost Ships of the Desert'1967California: a Guide to the Golden State(book, pg 461) by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California, 1967. Brief mention of 1890 old timer at Kane Springs claiming to have seen the ancient ship nearby.1967The Mysterious West(book) by Choral Pepper & Brad Williams, 19671968Dead Men do Tell Tales(book, pg 71) by Lake Erie Schaefer, 1968chapter: 'Desert Pearls'1969True Treasure magazine (date of issue # unknown) (U.S.