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...

Lafaye rastrea los avatares sincréticos del mesianismo desde la reconquista de la península Ibérica por los cristianos de manos de los moros, la diáspora de los judíos sefardíes y la esperanza milenarista de los evangelizadores de América hasta sus modernas metamorfosis en teología de la liberación y místicas nacionalistas o indianistas.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Konrad Ratz se propone acabar con las elucubraciones sobre la pareja imperial y con lo que el llama "la leyenda negra." El presente trabajo documenta una relacion de la cual poco se sabe y mucho se especula. Las cartas no solo se refieren a los asuntos de gobierno, sino tambien a vivencias cotidianas.