Yaqui Vengeance

May 1861: As dawn broke over the northern sonora Desert, only a few cumulus clouds left from an early morning rain shower lingered in the pale blue sky over the distant mountains, a caravan of over-burdened ox carts carrying a load of silver and gold ore is in the process of hauling their Presious cargo to a smelter on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. In the already hot sun, the drovers were on their knees praying to reach the next water hole before the sun set that evening. Over eighty mo...