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...

Este volumen de la Colección Cartas del Sur corresponde al tomo II del epistolario de Joaquín Mosquera y Arboleda, que comprende cartas escritas entre 1845 y 1874, dirigidas a sus hermanos Manuel María, Manuel José, Tomás Cipriano y a su hijo Pedro Pablo. También se incluye una carta reservada que Manuel María le envió a Joaquín, y que se mantuvo en este grupo atendiendo al orden dispuesto por su destinatario en su archivo personal.

En esta Breve Historia, Íñigo Bolinaga, con su habitual rigurosidad en lo histórico pero ameno y ágil al narrar los acontecimientos, hace un recorrido por la situación política, económica y social de una Francia en crisis y la aventura económicamente ruinosa de la intervención en la guerra de independencia de Estados Unidos fundamentales para contextualizar a Francia y comprender las causas directas del estallido revolucionario."(Web Ábrete libro) "Descubra los ideales ilustrados, y sucesos tan importantes como la revolución aristocrática, la suplantación de la monarquía...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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