About this story

At the end of the 1860s, Mortimer Belshaw, a wily San Francisco businessman, recognized that a cluster of little-known silver mines called Cerro Gordo could make him a fortune. He smooth-talked his way into control of the richest lodes of silver and lead ore atop Buena Vista peak. Belshaw built a smelter to refine the ore into bullion bricks made of silver and lead and then he set his sights on dominating travel in and out of the mining camp.

Cerro Gordo at its Prime

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