The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons

by John Mason Hart

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816527040
• ISBN13: 9780816527045
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"