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At the beginning of the 20th century, copper was the most sought after natural resource on earth, used for new technologies like electricity, telephone wires, indoor plumbing and the newfangled motor car, and, under the little Mexican town of Nacozari, in Sonora, they had copper a plenty. 

The busy railroad delivered tools needed by the Polaris mine, collected copper ore, and transported the raw material up to Arizona for smelting. 

The railroad also employed local heartthrob and hero, Jesus Garcia Corona, and when the whole town was threatened with dynamite and disaster, there was only one man who could save them and become the Héroe de Nacozari.

This is the astonishing tale of selfless bravery, heartbreak, Dia del Ferrocarrilero, and, of course, fortune telling chickens. 

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