{"product_id":"2940013446502","title":"The Lost Mountain","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN WANT OF WATER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"_Mira!  El Cerro Perdido_!\"  (See!  The Lost Mountain!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe man who thus exclaims is seated in a high-peak saddle, on the back\u003cbr\u003eof a small sinewy horse.  Not alone, as may be deduced from his words;\u003cbr\u003einstead, in company with other men on horseback, quite a score of them.\u003cbr\u003eThere are several wagons, too; large cumbrous vehicles, each with a team\u003cbr\u003eof eight mules attached.  Other mules, pack animals, form an _atajo_ or\u003cbr\u003etrain, which extends in a long line rearward, and back beyond this a\u003cbr\u003edrove of cattle in charge of two or three drovers--these mounted, as a\u003cbr\u003ematter of course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe place is in the middle of a vast plain, one of the _llanos_ of\u003cbr\u003eSonora, near the northern frontier of this sparsely inhabited state.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the men themselves, or most of them, are miners, as might be told by\u003cbr\u003ecertain peculiarities of costume, further evinced by a paraphernalia of\u003cbr\u003emining tools and machinery seen under the canvas tilts of the wagons.\u003cbr\u003eThere are women seen there too, with children of both sexes and every\u003cbr\u003eage; for it is a complete mining establishment on the move from a\u003cbr\u003e_veta_, worn out and abandoned, to one late discovered and still\u003cbr\u003eunworked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSave two of the party all are Mexicans though not of like race.  Among\u003cbr\u003ethem may be noted every shade of complexion, from the ruddy white of the\u003cbr\u003eBiscayan Spaniard to the copper-brown of the aboriginal, many being\u003cbr\u003epure-blooded Opata Indians, one of the tribes called _mansos_ (tamed).\u003cbr\u003eDistinctive points of dress also, both as to quality and cut, denote\u003cbr\u003edifference in rank and calling.  There are miners _pur sang_--these in\u003cbr\u003ethe majority; teamsters who drive the wagons; _arrieros_ and _mozos_ of\u003cbr\u003ethe mule train; _vaqueros_ with the cattle; and several others, male and\u003cbr\u003efemale, whose garb and manner proclaim them household servants.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079498580208,"sku":"2940013446502","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013446502_p0.jpg?v=1763581012","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013446502","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}