In October 1736 a Yaqui Indian prospector stumbled on a 1 1/2 ton chunk of almost pure silver in the mountains twelve miles above a ranching community by the name Arizonac. Hundreds of prospectors rushed to mine the rich, bolas y planchas de plata (balls and plates of silver) and word of the legendary mine traveled around the world. Does the word "Arizona" still remain a mystery or do the Basques hold the key to its real meaning? Military reports, diaries, maps, and artistic reproductions guide audiences through the story of the settlement of Spanish Colonial Arizona frontier in the eighteenth century.
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