Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

La disidencia popular carlista nació en 1833, producto de un enfrentamiento dinástico tras la muerte del rey Fernando VII. Pero tras el tema dinástico, unos fueron partidarios del hermano del difunto Fernando, don Carlos de Borbón, otros de su hija, la futura Isabel II, latía, pues, una fuerte escisión ideológica que llegó a transformarse en una protesta social. La llamada “cuestión dinástica” fue la mecha que hizo estallar el polvorín ochocentista español. Los carlistas se enfrentaron a los gubernamentales en tres largas guerras civiles. La primera fue liderada por el primer...

El estudio de Juan Manuel Romero Gil sobre "El Boleo" de 1885 a 1954 está en la tradición de una nueva historia de la minería. Sin descuidar o ignorar la historia tradicional del descubrimiento y apertura de El Boleo, él examina por primera vez a profundidad muchas facetas interconectadas en la evolución de esa empresa: los mercados, la tecnología, el fínanciamiento internacional, los problemas de transportación, las actitudes gubernamentales, el reclutamiento obrero, las condiciones de vida, y las diversas fuerzas laborales que trabajaron en las casi insoportables condiciones de la...

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