Inclusa intra parietes

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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La presencia del cine norteamericano en España, durante las dos primeras décadas del franquismo, estuvo lejos de reducirse a las producciones de Hollywood. Cientos de películas fueron proyectadas ante millones de españoles mediante los programas informativos y culturales que el gobierno de Estados Unidos desarrolló en el país. Este libro trata de desmitificar estas y otras presunciones, no por frecuentes menos equivocadas, acerca de las motivaciones y consecuencias de la interacción entre aquellos tres sospechosos habituales: la industria de Hollywood, el gobierno de Estados Unidos y...

When looking at historical photographs of Guadalupe residents, one sees the faces that represent the area s unique and diverse past. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Chumash and mapped by Spanish explorers, Guadalupe was first named in the 1840s Mexican land grant honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the title given to the Virgin Mary. Through the years, waves of immigrants made their way to Guadalupe to take advantage of the fertile soil and unique geographic features, the most prominent of which are the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, which contain some of the tallest sand dunes on Earth and have...