The Death's-Head Mine
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781401041496
Subjects: Adventure / thriller; Action & Adventure; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: PROLOGUE:  The Great Sonoran Desert.    

    It would be difficult to imagine a more dangerous and inhospitable land for travelers in 1861 than the arid wastes south of the Gila River in Arizona territory.
Description: The hundred-year saga of the Mateo-García fortunes and the men who rode at adventure to el norte.  Into distant lands held sacred by the Chiricahua Apaches they came in search of the gold that would make them hombres ricos—until at last los Indios could brook no further trespass.   
      Full of battles and animal lore, headstrong romance, revenge and retribution, it traces the story of three generations of men who dared invade the home of the Apache Rain Gods en el Cañón de la Buena Fortuna, the valley that to this day still lies in the shadows of a hat-shaped peak in those lands now known as Arizona.
Table of contents: class: section
title: THE DEATH'S-HEAD MINE by Bill Piercy  PROLOGUE:  The Great Sonoran Desert  PART ONE:  THE FIRST OF THE SEEKERS   Chapter	Page 1  Five Golden Pebbles	6 2  Pancho Mateo	14 3  The Tucson Trail	21 4  The Great Hacienda	30 5  Los Enamorados	40 6  Condors at Santa Cruz	49  PART TWO:  THE NEXT OF THE SEEKERS   7  Los Aventureros	54 8  Señor Castor's Pond	66 9  The Cave	75 10  The Storm	83 11  La Cabeza de la Muerte	92 12  El Dorado	103 13  Hidden Trails	111 14  La Mina de Oro	121 15  Hard-Rock Miners	128 16  La Partida	135 17  The Price of Gold	143 18  Odd Claws	153 19  At Trail's End	162  PART THREE:  ANOTHER RUN AT GLORY  20  The Expedition	175 21  A Glut of Riches	186 22  The Apaches 	198 23  The Run of the Arrow	211 24  Two Friends South	223 25  Lupe Macias	235 26  Los Novios	245 27  El Casamiento	256 28  The Valley of Eagles	266 29  Los Pistoleros	279 30  Años Buenos y Malos	290 31  The Vargas Curse	302  PART FOUR:  THE LAST OF THE SEEKERS  32  Roberto García	314 33  The Taking of  Eagle Ranch	322 34  El Nido del Águila	331 35  A Dangerous Legacy	342 36  Benito Craven	351 37  Partners Three	359 38  La Mina Calavera	366 39  El Pantera	376 40  On the Track of the Panther	387 41  The Circle of Justice	396  EPILOGUE:  Loose Ends Tied	407  APPENDIX: Acknowledgements	414 Selected History	415 Spanish Surnames	420 Glossary	421