Somewhere in the canyon country of the Sierra Madre, legend says, lies a sealed cluster of silver mines so rich the black-robed priests who worked them cast their church bells from the ore — a whole silver empire abandoned in haste and lost when its keepers were marched out of the country in 1767. Generations have hunted Tayopa on faded mission maps and deathbed directions. Bring the Jesuit expulsion history, the map fragments, and the searchers who chased the silver of the padres.