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- ↑ Marble, Steve (January 17, 2017). "Ray Dorr — adventurer, writer and keeper of the Kokoweef legend — dies at 88". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ↑ Dobie, J. Frank (1939), Apache Gold & Yaqui Silver. Boston: Little
- ↑ Childress, David (2011). Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of the Southerwest. SCB Distributors. ISBN 9781935487555.
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