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Joseph, of the Nez Perces Indians, and the result The mountain would not come to Mohammed, so Mohammed had to go to the mountain Joseph turns the tables on the Senators and administers a stinging tongue-lashing We leave Joseph, but do not feel very proud of ourselves 370

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CHAPTER XLV " Fighting

Bob " Evans gets

me employment with Governor Alexander R. Shepherd and I go to Mexico My brother, P. H. Morgan, is appointed U.S. Minister to Mexico San Antonio, Texas, where we buy a herd of unbroken mules The Canon de las

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— — Batopilas — The San Miguel mine — Governor Shepherd as an executive — A law unto himself, he wins the favor of Diaz — In Bonanza — My conducta carries a hundred and forty thousand dollars in bars to Chihuahua — Instinct of the mountain mule — Beware of the polite Mexican — Narrow escape from ing into the hands of Victoria, the Apache Chief — The mountain Iglesias

— Dangers

the mountain

of

trail

silver

Porfirio

silver

fall-

trail

strewn with silver bars

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CHAPTER XLVI Resign position as chief of conductas and start for home via Mazatlan and San Francisco Alamos Witness marriage between a Mexican girl and a German New York A dress-suit my chief asset Return to Mexico and become a civil engineer (?) Primitive coaching Queretaro and its opal mines 395

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CHAPTER XLVII Leon, the city whose sole industry

the carving of leather and making on the gallop La Piedad Did n't flop quick enough and got stoned The brave peccary The strangler tree The tree that bleeds blood Come upon a murdered man lying on the road The volcano of Colima General Grant only likes rebels who fought Mr. Gilmore comes near losing his life in the Jule River Return to the States to finance a silver mine 401 of saddles

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CHAPTER XLVIII

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Return to Tampico and get shipwrecked on the bar A squaw man who was a quack doctor Find a lake of asphalt and strike oil A precarious ferry 111 with fever and receive a matrimonial

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CHAPTER XLIX Not even any money zalez

in

and General

oil,

when

Porfirio

I

Diaz

am

interested

— Collapse of

— President Gonscheme — Enoil