This is the 1969 1st edition, no later printings stated. In marbled red leatherette with gilt titles. It's a solid and good looking ex lib copy with a couple of stamps inside. No dw. VERY hard to find the first edition of this title. ""Includes Indian agents' reports on the Cherokee, 1831-1833 (p. 7-30), biographical notes on Cherokee chiefs (p. 31-47), stories of gold buried on Cherokee land, and other stories of the Cherokee removal (p.49-80), photographs and sketches of Cherokee signs and symbols (p. 81-126), additional stories of buried gold (p. 129-138), and pictures of and a letter about the Franklin gold mines (p. 140-145)."" ; details treasure symbols used by the Cherokee to mark trees and indicate the location of buried treasure, with photographs and drawings of the marks and their locations throughout Forsyth and Cherokee Counties in Georgia. ; Contents: part One: History and legends of the Cherokees who lived in the south section of Coosawattee District prior to 1838 -- Hightower -- Killing of James Vann -- Legend of JAmes Vann -- Honorable Jacob McCarty Scudder -- Sudder's letters -- J W A Sanford letters -- Picture of Cherokee Indian Princess -- Picture of Chief Rising Fawn -- Chief Rising Fawn's stone picture -- How Rising Fawn's stone picture was found -- Picture of Chief George Welch -- Chief Welch's Mill -- Shief Settendown -- Chief Sawnee -- Picture Tribal Chief of Vickery Creek -- Picture, Cherokee Indian Brave -- Chief Henry Vickery -- Picture of Cherokee Woman and her dog -- James Kell -- Indians' Law -- The Secret Cherokee Treasure Tunnel -- The Red Bank Tribe -- Photographs of the Symbol Stone of Red Bank tribe -- Gold deposits of the Red bank tribe -- Long Swamp Tribe -- Big Svannah Tribe -- Rising Fawn's gold -- The Freeman story -- The Matilda Gazaway legend -- The John Carnes story -- Indian gold mine -- Indian stockade -- Indian silver mine -- The return and recovery -- Humming Bird's gold -- The lost Negro Gold Mine -- Cherokee signs and symbols -- Cherokee Indian treasure Mao -- Part Two -- Treasure signs of the Canton Tribes -- Story of the Canton Treasure Tunnel -- The Fowler Gold Vein -- Part Three -- The Franklin Gold Mines -- List of Names from the Blackburn Ledger -- General information -- 1825 U S Government Census of Cherokees -- 1835 Cherokee indian Census.