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The silver magnet: fifty years in a Mexican silver mine
Grant Shepherd
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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I. Departure (page 13)
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II. Arrival (page 23)
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III. First Impressions (page 29)
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IV. Murder (page 37)
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V. Buried Treasure (page 50)
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VI. El Patron Grande and Batopilas (page 60)
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VII. Everyday Matters (page 68)
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VIII. All Kinds of Education (page 76)
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IX. Fourteen Mules to a Stage Coach (page 87)
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X. Christmas at Batopilas (page 102)
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XI. Marshall Willis and the Hot Country (page 111)
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XII. Hunting Peccary (page 120)
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XIII. Bishops and Football (page 128)
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XIV. Modesty and Other Mexican Peculiarities (page 135)
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XV. Two-Legged and Four-Legged Playmates (page 143)
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XVI. The Indispensable Mule (page 155)
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XVII. Vacation Journeyings (page 167)
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XVIII. Vacation Journeyings Continued (page 180)
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XIX. Racial Characteristics (page 191)
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XX. Accidents (page 202)
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XXI. Fighting Cocks in Mexico (page 210)
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XXII. Thieving Silver (page 218)
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XXIII. Comestibles (page 225)
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XXIV. El Patron Grande with Angels and Calamity (page 236)
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XXV. Death of El Patron Grande (page 249)
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XXVI. Batopilas without El Patron Grande (page 254)
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XXVII. General Porfirio Diaz (page 260)
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XXVIII. Twenty Thousand Dollars Worth of Dirty Clothes (page 266)
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XXIX. The Kid and Villa (page 276)
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XXX. Tampico (page 285)
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