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Looking Back At: The Lost Spanish Mine
For centuries the legend of the Lost Spanish Mine has lured fortune hunters into the Texas Hill Country. That legend began on a hill south of Llano. In 1753Spanish soldiers exploring the Llano River heard stories from Apaches of a hill of red ochre (cerro del almagre). Veins of silver were said to run through that hill so thick it hung in stalactites from the roofs of caves.
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