Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s

In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as Vicuñas. This rich collection of original sources allows readers to play historian.