Excerpt from That Treasure, or Adventures of Frontier Life Sharply outlined against the blue southern hori zon rise the summits of two mighty volcano peaks. On every side stand mountain ranges, which the keen, clear air seems to bring close to the broad streets of the city; a city stately with domes, tow ers, and steeples, a city of ancient power and grandeur, a city famed in history, in poetry, and in romance, the old capital of the Aztec Emperors, the City of Mexico. In one of its streets was a low stone building, with flat roof and balconied upper windows. In the doorway there stood a handsome, athletic young fellow in his seventeenth year, as straight as an Apache arrow, with crisp dark hair, and keen black eyes; American by birth, cosmopolitan from force of circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.