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"In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their Jewish origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape inquisitorial persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier.".
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La Ventana (The Window) Landmark still holds the secrets of the richest gold mine to ever be mined in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Hidden by the Utes after a running battle with the Spaniards in 1770, it has never been found. Along with the mine, Treasure Hunters have looked for the gold bullion and rich Sylvanite ore, said to be stores somewhere east of La Ventana. Many stories have been told of sheep herders finding and losing the location...
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A soldier-author's view of the American frontier The history of the expansion of the frontier of America is particularly marked by the famous-perhaps legendary-trails upon which pioneers in their 'prairie schooners' or cattlemen driving their great herds crossed the vast continental interior. All roads tell their own stories, not by virtue of being routes of passage, but because of the personalities of those who travelled them and the events that...