Early on the morning of November 3, 1908, Aramayo Francke & Company manager Carlos Peró left Tupiza with his teenage son, Mariano, and a servant to deliver the mining company’s payroll to its administrative head-quarters in Quechisla, a three-day journey. That evening, they stayed at an Aramayo hacienda in Salo. At dawn they resumed their trek, Peró on foot and his companions on mules. About 9:30 that morning, the trio rounded a curve on the far side of Huaca Huañusca (Dead Cow Hil
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