Excerpt from Mexico's Treasure-House (Guanajuato): An Illustrated and Descriptive Account of the Mines and Their Operations in 1906 Guanajuato, and there to study the conditions and prospects of a district which I always believed, and now know, will one day not far distant rival the famous Rand itself, and prove to be an important apartment in that treasure - house from which will come the gold, silver, copper and precious stones that will build the empire of to-morrow, and make future cities of this world veri table Jerusalems, which were the words in which the late Cecil Rhodes once described Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The story of the Hotel Casa de los Tesoros and the restaurant, including many of the favorite recipes"--Cover

Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. "There's no end to the list, of course," Connell says, "because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard."