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...

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Esta obra rescata debates trabados en el Congreso nacional en torno a un par de iniciativas gubernamentales destinadas a establecer los primeros instrumentos modernos de protección del patrimonio arqueológico mexicano. Estos debates, que surgieron durante la última década del siglo XIX, fueron la respuesta a las depredaciones y saqueos practicados por exploradores extranjeros independientes y por agentes de coleccionistas y de los grandes museos del centro-este de Estados Unidos. Se trata de textos parlamentarios de difícil acceso que hoy se ponen al alcance de estudiosos de la historia...

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...

¿Quiénes, de los muchos de los afamados autores que exhibe la Historia –entre los cuales hallamos a literatos, filósofos, pensadores, religiosos, etc.– no se han ocupado del dinero, y de modo especial para, en general, hacer escarnio de él? ¿O acaso los judíos y otros pueblos también, como, por ejemplo, los fenicios y después también los lombardos, no hay debido pagar –específicamente los mencionados en primer lugar– un alto precio en bienes y en vidas por haber tenido condiciones de existencia en las cuales el dinero y el comercio jugaban un significado preponderante, tanto ...