About the Author - Bill Townsley
Bill Townsley
It is with great sadness that Bill Townsley died in 2023. His untimely death is a great loss to southwestern history.
AUTHOR • RESEARCHER • COLLECTOR
Colonial Spanish
Mexico
Antique Texas Maps
Antique Mexican Maps
Old West Items
BOOKS BY TOWNSLEY
- ABRIDGED NOTES OF A SPIDER ROCK TREASURE RESEARCHER & OTHER HISTORY EVENTS IN TEXAS, Volume 1
- ABRIDGED NOTES OF A SPIDER ROCK TREASURE RESEARCHER & OTHER HISTORY EVENTS IN TEXAS, Volume 2
- THE SPIDER’S WEB by George A. Mitchell, co-published by Margaret Mitchell Eilers & Bill Townsley
- OLD BIG COUNTRY WEST TEXAS HISTORY MORE MYSTERIES THAN ANSWERS
ARTICLES WRITTEN BY TOWNSLEY
- Haskell & Stamford Star Newspaper “The Spider Rock Mystery” March 20, 2009; Series beginning March 18, 2011, “Big Country West Texas History”; Series beginning 2014, “More Old Big Country West Texas History”.
- Goldthwaite Eagle Newspaper, 2002, “Treasure at Dry Pond”
- Enchanted Rock Magazine, “The Bowie Mine, A Literature Review”, “The Spanish Treasure of Dry Pond”, “Spider Rock Disc of Central Texas”
- West Texas Historical Association Year Book, Volume LXXXV 2009, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, WTHA Box 41041,Lubbock TX. 79409-1041, “Sleuthing the Mysteries of West Texas’ Spider Rock Treasure”.
BOOKS AVAILABLE
ABRIDGED NOTES OF A SPIDER ROCK TREASURE RESEARCHER & OTHER HISTORY EVENTS IN TEXAS, VOLUME 1 $35
ABRIDGED NOTES OF A SOIDER ROCK TREASURE RESEARCHER & OTHER HISTORY EVENTS IN TEXAS, VOLUME 2 $45
OLD BIG COUNTRY WEST TEXAS HISTORY MORE MYSTERIES THAN ANSWERS $35
THE SPIDER’S WEB - authored by George A. Mitchell (posthumous) co-published by Margaret Mitchell Eilers (George Mitchell’s daughter) & Bill Townsley. (Mitchell’s 1960’s/1970’s factual account, study, correspondence with other individuals, theories, and physical search for West Texas’ Stonewall County Spider Rock Treasure). Surprisingly, after the death of George Mitchell’s son (in 2011) the 50 year old manuscript was discovered in a safe in Angleton, Texas. $55
To purchase:
Texas Star Antiques
Haskell, Texas 79521
Phone 940-863-4350
Or
Quanah Acme & Pacific Railway Museum
Quanah, TX. 79252
Phone 940-663-5272 or 940-839-8066
Or
Antique Station
703 N. 3rd Street
Abilene, TX. 79601
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Last Update 8-27-23