The Gold-Seekers
                                A Tale of California
                                                            
                                    
                                            Gustave Aimard 
                                    
                                
                            9781465576514
                                197 pages
                            Library of Alexandria
                            
                            
                                
                         
                        
                                
Overview
                                On the 5th of July, 184-, at about six in the evening, a party of well-mounted horsemen started at a gallop from Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco, and proceeded along the road that traverses the village of Zapopan, celebrated for its miraculous virgin. After crossing the escarped summits of the Cordilleras, this road reaches the charming little town of Tepic, the usual refuge of those Europeans and rich Mexicans whom business carries to San Blas, but to whom the insalubrity of the air breathed in that port, the maritime arsenal of the Mexican union, would be mortal.