was known for entertaining people with stories of Gaspar and other tall tales of his days as a pirate, selling hand-drawn treasure maps that led to nothing. “My mother was Paullet Gomez Lovett ...

Clausen really is a modern-day treasure hunter. He doesn’t sail the seas in search of sunken ships and pirate booty. But from his perch at Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. in La Jolla ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... With some pains, we gather the story of the pirate's life, as told by himself, free from the ...