Montezuma's Gold


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In the year 1520 Hernando Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire and captured riches that filled the treasury of King Charles I of Spain to overflowing. Ships laden with gold and precious stones flowed from the New World to Spain, making Spain the riches country in Europe. However not all the treasure of the Aztec Empire was found by Hernando Cortez and his men as they slaughtered and looted their way through the new world. For hundreds of years rumors abounded of an Aztec secret chamber with rooms full of gold and precious gems that the Conquistadors never found. Quite by accident Peter Logan has found the chamber hidden for more than five hundred years. In a desperate flight from the Spanish family who claims the treasure belongs to them and a killer tracking him down, Peter must somehow find a way to return the treasure to its rightful place with the antiquities of Mexico.




Montezuma's Gold Mines


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Southwest Traveler - Lost Mines and Buried Treasure


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Throughout the Southwest, stories of hidden, lost, stolen, and unreachable gold and other treasures fill curious minds. But where are they? And what exactly did happen? This book not only tells the tales, it includes a map to show the way.




Montezuma II


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The ninth Aztec emperor, Montezuma was a leader and army commander who is known for his eventual defeat at the hands of Hernán Cortés. Students will gain a greater knowledge of the Aztec Empire, learn about the successes and failures of Montezuma's reign, and explore how he came into power, how he was defeated, and finally, the repercussions of his defeat.







Montezuma's Daughter


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Fortune and Glory: A Treasure Hunter’s Handbook


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So you have decided to give up the rat race for the life of an international treasure hunter, but you are not quite sure where to start. Well then, this book is for you! Fortune and Glory tells you all you need to know in order to set off on an epic quest for the great lost treasures of history. Starting with a quick exploration of the history of treasure hunting and a look at the gear that you will need, it then delves into a survey of the 'lost' treasures that are out there just waiting to be claimed. Continent by continent, the book covers the legends of hidden locations like El Dorado and King Solomon's Mines, as well as covering the most illustrious lost artifacts such as the Holy Grail, the Hanjo Masamune, and the Irish Crown Jewels. If your interest lies with the loot rather than the history, the book also discusses Nazi gold, pirate treasure, and the treasure hordes of the Copper Scrolls. This book is your first step towards becoming the pistol-toting, fedora-wearing international tomb robber and treasure hunter you've always dreamt of being!




Cortés and Montezuma


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The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical system as 9 Wind Day) was the precise date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black—exactly as Cortés would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship. Though its consequences have been treated by writers as diverse as D.H. Lawrence and Charles Olson, never before have the facts of this event been rendered with such extraordinary clarity and elegance.




WIRE RIDER


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New Mexico late 1800's: Along came Wire Ryder taking place in the New Mexico territory at the time of Geranimo's surrender 1886. Wire is a western in the sense that it takes place in the west and it involves a ranch forman at a time when "Cow Boying" was ending, trail hearding was giving way to railroad stock cars and stock yards opening in New York and Chicago. Wire is a classic tale of how a person is caught up in changing times and is capable of transitioning his vocational skills into a different way of life. A treasure hunt makes use of all the hero's skills gained as a cowboy. Even the eternal event of meeting the love of ones life depends upon life's events so that one recognizes that love. This is such a story that has occurred often in the west, and most assuredly will occur even as the years march on and cow boying is lost to the future.




The Treasure of la Malinche


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The ordinary life of college professor Margaret de Vega is forever changed when she discovers the six hundred year old memoirs of La Malinche containing the secret to finding the lost treasure of Montezuma. With the aid of retired Special Forces Colonel R.A. Lincoln, Doctor de Vega undertakes her treasure hunt along a rapidly deteriorating United States ' Mexican border.