mines were more than a hundred miles remote…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

mines were more than a hundred miles remote from any settlement and surrounded as they were by two tribes of the worst blood-spilling Indians on the continent; it was like going through the gates of hell to get there. The town of Janos was a presidio on the frontier, midway between Santa Rita copper mines and the city of Chihuahua; he left his family there at a place of safety and engaged in the business of trans- porting the copper to Chihuahua.