Antonio Roque Juan Almada (1761-1810) immigrated in 1782 from Spain to Alamos, Sonora with his maternal uncle and godfather, Friar Antonio de los Reyes, and a brother (José Antonio Juan Almada, a newly ordained priest). Antonio became a manager in the local mines, making several reforms, and a landowner. He married María Lucila de la Luz in 1784. Descendants and relatives lived in Sonora, Chihuahua and elsewhere. Some immigrated to the United States. Includes the history of Yaqui uprisings, American filibuster attempts in Sonora, and the divisive influence of Emperor Maximilian and his French troops during the 1860s.

Antonio Roque Juan Almada (1761-1810) immigrated in 1782 from Spain to Alamos, Sonora with his maternal uncle and godfather, Friar Antonio de los Reyes, and a brother (José Antonio Juan Almada, a newly ordained priest). Antonio became a manager in the local mines, making several reforms, and a landowner. He married María Lucila de la Luz in 1784. Descendants and relatives lived in Sonora, Chihuahua and elsewhere. Some immigrated to the United States. Includes the history of Yaqui uprisings, American filibuster attempts in Sonora, and the divisive influence of Emperor Maximilian and his French troops during the 1860s.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

In the great barranca known today as Copper Canyon, the small mining town of Batopilas once experienced a silver bonanza among the largest ever known. American investors, believing that Mexico offered an unexploited cornucopia, began purchasing mines in the Sierra Madre, seeking to expand their hold on natural resources outside U.S. borders. From 1861 until the Revolution of 1910, the men of the Batopilas Mining Company ruled the region using their wealth, armed might, and extensive connections. The technology, industrialism, and politics their interests brought to this remote community tied the Tarahumara, Yaqui, Mayo, and other peoples of the barrancas directly to the economies of the United States and China. Local society was revolutionized, and a dramatic tapestry of human interactions was created. Based on many volumes of mining company records, The Silver of the Sierra Madre exposes the mentality and methods of mine owners John Robinson and Alexander “Boss” Shepherd, vividly detailing their exploitation of the people and the natural resources of Chihuahua. Hart aptly demonstrates the human and financial losses resulting from President Porfirio Díaz’s development programs, which relied on foreign investors, foreign managers, and foreign technology. This unprecedented work also provides a highly interesting ethnographic and social description of one of the least-known areas of Mexico. It is a tale of power and desperation, respect and arrogance, adventure and tragedy, and, ultimately, triumph and survival.

A study of Mexican Yaqui Indians competing for farming and fishing rights.

Part I. The balance of order and disorder -- 1. Ambitious bandits: disorder equals progress -- 2. The aura of the king -- 3. The spoils of independence -- 4. Bent on being modern -- 5. Bandits into police, and vice versa -- Part II. Toward the Western model -- 6. Order, disorder, and development -- 7. The limits to dictatorship -- 8. A kind of peace -- Part III. A political police performance -- 9. Constabulary of campesinos and artisans -- 10. The president's police -- 11. It's the image that counts -- Part IV. Demons of revolution unleashed -- 12. The rollercoaster called capitalism-- 13. Unraveling the old regime -- 14. Disorder in search of order.