Landing Uphill: Seven Years at San Luis

Award-winning historian Eleanor Swent writes about going as a young bride in 1947 to a remote silver mine in Tayoltita, Mexico, landing in the mountains inland from Mazatlan, in a canyon with a tilted landing strip. Drawing primarily from letters to family and friends, she recounts the challenges and rich rewards of life in a Mexico unseen by most visitors — a Mexico of deep personal connections across cultures and generations. She weaves together her letters and later recollections, her hu...