History has blurred the details ... had been sent to the border of the United States and Mexico to mark a line that existed only on maps, and the work was not going well. Some say Weller struck ...

HISTORY, as Mexicans see it ... led forth a ragged army of Indians under the banner of Mexico’s own Virgin of Guadalupe, sparked an uprising that ended Spanish rule in 1821.

In all of them, beauty and history linger ... with a boom in the 1990s and 2000s. Map showing haciendas around Mexico City visited by the writer.