Guanajuato 1908

[jesm]

Hola Don,
Do you have, or know where one could see, a copy of
Mrs. Myers pamphlet? I am an avid amateur historian and now being a newbie in GTO want to learn and enjoy how this place has come to be the treasured " City of Dreams" we all love. Thanks for posting.
Jesse Merrell

One hundred three years ago, Mrs. Peter M. Myers, of Bedford, Ohio, visited Guanajuato, and presently recounted her travels in a pamphlet entitled "A City of Dreams." She writes about the great flood of 1905; about the "peons" in the mines, who earned "six cents a day, when they were paid anything"; about the deadly Fiestas of San Juan (in Valenciana!); and much more. All in all, she was charmed by Guanajuato, "the most dreamily picturesque city on all the North American continent"--though she was troubled, like many of us today, by "threatening signs of commercialism."

I stumbled across Mrs. Myers's pamphlet here. She writes very well, and the pamphlet includes a few photographs. If you're interested in the history of Guanajuato, it's worth your time.

Don Coulter