El cojo de la bocina y otras historias

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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En este libro, un grupo de investigadores especialistas en el tema militar romano se ha enfrentado al reto de estudiar diversas situaciones y el contexto de la muerte del soldado romano: el que cae en el combate o en periodo de paz por otras causas, y, en otros casos, de analizar aspectos jurí­dicos o religiosos.