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The silver magnet: fifty years in a Mexican silver mine

Grant Shepherd c1938 © Grant Shepherd
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • I. Departure (page 13)
  • II. Arrival (page 23)
  • III. First Impressions (page 29)
  • IV. Murder (page 37)
  • V. Buried Treasure (page 50)
  • VI. El Patron Grande and Batopilas (page 60)
  • VII. Everyday Matters (page 68)
  • VIII. All Kinds of Education (page 76)
  • IX. Fourteen Mules to a Stage Coach (page 87)
  • X. Christmas at Batopilas (page 102)
  • XI. Marshall Willis and the Hot Country (page 111)
  • XII. Hunting Peccary (page 120)
  • XIII. Bishops and Football (page 128)
  • XIV. Modesty and Other Mexican Peculiarities (page 135)
  • XV. Two-Legged and Four-Legged Playmates (page 143)
  • XVI. The Indispensable Mule (page 155)
  • XVII. Vacation Journeyings (page 167)
  • XVIII. Vacation Journeyings Continued (page 180)
  • XIX. Racial Characteristics (page 191)
  • XX. Accidents (page 202)
  • XXI. Fighting Cocks in Mexico (page 210)
  • XXII. Thieving Silver (page 218)
  • XXIII. Comestibles (page 225)
  • XXIV. El Patron Grande with Angels and Calamity (page 236)
  • XXV. Death of El Patron Grande (page 249)
  • XXVI. Batopilas without El Patron Grande (page 254)
  • XXVII. General Porfirio Diaz (page 260)
  • XXVIII. Twenty Thousand Dollars Worth of Dirty Clothes (page 266)
  • XXIX. The Kid and Villa (page 276)
  • XXX. Tampico (page 285)
  • Glossary
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