In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern in that mountain, it is rumored that billions of dollars' worth of artifacts and thousands of gold and silver ingots and coins have been cached for decades, a treasure that dwarfs all others. Its existence, or the belief in its existence, has been responsible for millions of dollars' worth of recovery efforts, blatant violation of...

A fines de 1868 Lucio Victorio Mansilla llega a Córdoba con el cargo de comandante de fronteras. Trabaja intensamente en la provincia y, dos años después, resuelve firmar un tratado de paz con los indios ranqueles. Viaja a las tolderías de los caciques Ramón, Mariano Rosas y Baigorrita, donde permanece más de dos semanas. Su plan de pacificación es posteriormente rechazado tanto por el presidente Domingo F. Sarmiento como por el Congreso, frustrándose...

"Describes the violent history between the frontiersmen and the Native Americans in the Southwestern borderlands by following Mickey Free, a mixed-blood warrior who played a pivotal role in the fighting as he pursued the Apache Kid."--NoveList.

This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. Robinson tracks the Lipans from their earliest interactions with Spaniards...