A cache of Viking artifacts discovered in the Arizona desert launches Scott Wolter on a quest to find a lost Viking ship that legends claim is buried somewhere in the Southwest. In 1774, a mule driver named Tiburcio Manquerna supposedly stumbled across a large cache of pearls lying amidst the desert sands. A Place for any and all information about the Lost Ship of the Desert Somewhere in the great Salton Basin, or the Laguna Salada or the delta of the Colorado River, lie the bones of an ancient ship stranded hundreds of years ago seen now and again by desert wanderers or by Indians. Over the ensuing centuries, stories have abounded of an ancient ship in the middle of the desert, buried and unburied by the shifting sands. Over time, the lake disappeared and it is said the ship sank beneath the sands. The Viking Stories started sometime around 1900 by the Mexicans and Indians who live in the Colorado River delta region near the Laguna Salada basin. For instance, he believed this legend about the "Lost Ship of Imperial Valley", buried in the desert sand, not far from El Centro, CA, USA. The Lost Ship of the Desert is the subject of legends about ancient ships found in California's Colorado Desert.Since after the U.S. Civil War, stories have been told about buried ships hidden in the desert lands north of the Gulf of California.. A mountaineer, storm-stained and brown from farthest desert touched the town And, striding through the town held, up Above his head a … He was returning from Laguna Salada. In 1907, when yet a teen-age boy, an Elmer Carver was working for this rancher named Jacobson. And many accounts have the ship stranded not in the Salton Sea, but in the Laguna Salada, which is many miles closer to the Gulf. Fisk believes Iturbe’s ship was the Indian’s white bird and the same ship, buried in the sand noted by the Arizona prospector. And there are wet years, even in the desert. One story goes that blowing winds uncovered the ship on a ranch sometime before the turn of the twentieth century. Vaqueros warn the ship holds a … There is man now living in the Mexicali Valley, about 50 miles northeast of Laguna Salada, who says he saw a ship buried in the lakebed. ... Somewhere along his travels, which included the Yuha desert, again just northwest of the Laguna Salada area, he came upon a ship, in the middle of the desert. On a map it becomes evident how a ship could sail up the Colorado and the Rio Hardy on a high tide and then accidentally veer into the Salada during a high water year. ... Remnants of sunken pirate ship Content may lie beneath Laguna Salada-min read. 2 talking about this. THE QUEST FOR THE LOST SHIP. That is one of the most persistent legends of the far Southwest. He had been down by Laguna Salada, in Baja California, he said. How did it get there? 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