by Nan Ryan
Expeditions Unlimited would receive a “small percentage” of the booty, Lee said, but he won’t say how small.
Lee says he could get started before the end of the year, but the Army says it can’t act until Congress approves the legislation and an environmental-impact study is done.
If any gold is found, there’s going to be a fight over who owns it. Any number of people claim it, including the Apache Nation (the peak is named after Chief Victorio), other relatives of Noss, and a group of Air Force veterans who say they saw the gold in 1958.
Just where the gold came from is also a mystery.
Howard Bryan, a retired reporter for The Tribune who covered the 1977 search, says his favorite theory is that the cavern was an Apache cache.
Acknowledgments
WITH SINCERE THANKS TO my caring editor, Damaris Rowland, for keeping a close continuing watch over my books through each stage of production and for considerately updating me every step of the way. With a sure hand and a beautiful telephone voice.
Thanks as well to my knowledgeable and enthusiastic agent, Aaron Priest, for always affording me the best advice and representation available.
To the library staff of The Albuquerque Journal for invaluable research assistance for The Legend of Love.
And as always, to my valued readers. I appreciate you all and I’m truly grateful to those of you who have written me such kind and encouraging letters.
About the Author
Nan Ryan (1936–2017) was an award-winning historical romance author. She was born in Graham, Texas, to Glen Henderson, a rancher postmaster, and Roxy Bost. She began writing when she was inspired by a Newsweek article about women who traded corporate careers for the craft of romantic fiction. She immediately wrote a first draft that she refused to let see the light of day, and was off and running with the success of her second novel Kathleen’s Surrender (1983), a story about a Southern belle’s passionate affair with a mysterious gambler. Her husband, Joe Ryan, was a television executive, and his career took them all over the country, with each new town providing fodder for Ryan’s stories. A USA Today bestseller, she enjoyed critical success the Literary Guild called “incomparable.” When she wasn’t writing, she was an avid sports handicapper, and a supporter and contributor to the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Juvenile Diabetes since the 1980s. Ryan passed away peacefully in her sleep, surrounded by her proud and loving family.
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