For more than 130 years, people have searched Arizona’s Superstition Mountains for a legendary lost gold mine. Nobody has ever proven they found it. The story begins with Jacob Waltz, a German prospector who lived in Phoenix and died in 1891. After his death, roughly 50 pounds of high-grade gold ore was reportedly discovered beneath his bed. Where that gold actually came from remains a mystery. Then the legend grew: a hidden Peralta mine, secret maps, buried gold near Weaver’s Needle and Waltz supposedly revealing the mine’s location on his deathbed. None of those parts of the story have ever been proven. There’s another twist: the “Dutchman” wasn’t actually Dutch. Waltz was German, and the nickname likely came from a misunderstanding of “Deutsch.” Geologists have also questioned whether the massive gold deposit described in the legend could even exist in the Superstitions. But gold really was mined nearby, including at the historic Mammoth Mine in the Goldfield district. That’s ...