tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63358231094750497982024-03-12T19:57:23.159-07:00Cheryl's USAA companion blog to Jon and Cheryl's excellent adventureCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-90542012051842126282018-11-20T07:57:00.000-08:002018-11-20T07:57:44.914-08:00Picket Post Mountain trail best suited for experienced hikers<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Picket Post Mountain</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The small
town of Superior, Arizona, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>got its start
as a military camp on a nearby mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
military established a camp at the base of a nearby mountain in 1870. Soldiers
named it Picket Post Mountain because sentinels were posted at the top to warn
the camp of impending attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Today, it’s
a hiking trail. The 3.9-mile trail is rated as difficult, but some hikers say
it almost becomes like mountain climbing the nearer one gets to the top. Those
who reach the top will be rewarded with stunning desert views. There’s a trail
box at the top where hikers can sign a log book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Dogs are
allowed on the trail, but some hikers report their dogs had problems coming
down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Picket
Post Mountain is in the southern part of Tonto National Forest. It’s a good
place to enjoy wildflowers and desert scenery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Superior
is located on Highway 60 east of Phoenix.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-23184986195008238012018-11-14T05:51:00.000-08:002018-11-14T05:51:32.456-08:00Arizona's Gila: once mighty river now a meandering stream <div style="margin: 0px;">
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<b><i>The Gila River at Winkelman, Arizona</i></b></div>
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You’d
never guess it by looking at it today, but the Gila River was once one of Arizona’s
greatest rivers. Today it’s a shadow of its former self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Once upon
a time, however, water flowed so plentiful through it, the Hohokams, a tribe in
southcentral Arizona, diverted its waters to create the world’s most advanced
irrigation system in the Third Century B.C. near what is now Coolidge, Arizona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
Hohokams began abandoning their settlement sometime in the early 1500s. By 1550
no one was left. No one knows the real reason why they left, but there is some
speculation the Gila began drying up and could no longer support their
irrigation systems. Remains of the irrigation canals can be seen at <a href="https://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2016/01/casa-grande-ruins-highlight-early.html" target="_blank">Casa Grande Ruins National Monument</a> at Coolidge.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Remains of the Hohokams' irrigation system</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Today, it’s
a meandering stream as it winds its way through the mountains along Highway 77
in Arizona.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It grows shallow underneath
the hot Arizona sun, and sometimes completely dries up in this area. When it’s
like this, it’s hard to imagine, that at 640miles long, it’s one of the longest
rivers in the western United States. The river starts in New Mexico, winds its
way down Arizona where, what’s left of it, empties into the Colorado River near
Yuma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Much of
its route is through wilderness area that is rich in wildlife such as elk,
bighorn sheep and black bears. It also is a good place to see birds such as
wild turkeys and grouse.</span></div>
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<br />Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-28229167943703947162018-11-06T07:16:00.000-08:002018-11-06T07:16:47.728-08:00Pyramid atop Poston Hill honors "father of Arizona"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Poston hill</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s difficult
to see from Highway 79 just outside of Florence, Arizona, but that pointy thing
atop Poston Hill is a 15-foot high pyramid. It’s also a burial site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Beneath it
lies the remains of Charles D. Poston, known as the “father of Arizona,”
because of his lobbying efforts before Congress and President Lincoln to get
Arizona elevated to territorial status in 1863. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Before his
death in 1902, he served in several federal posts, including Arizona
superintendent of Indian Affairs, land register in nearly Florence, and Arizona’s
first Congressional delegate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Poston
always wanted to build a temple to the sun atop the hill now named for him, but
ran out of money. When he died, he was buried at a Phoenix cemetery.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In 1925, his friends had him dug up and
re-interred facing the sun inside this pyramid. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The reburial was attended by 1,500 people,
including the governor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
pyramid is accessible on foot by a half-mile trail. Go north on Highway 79 out
of Florence, turn left at milepost 136 and follow the signs to Poston Butte
Monument Park.</span></div>
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Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-88855324599489635982018-10-30T07:53:00.000-07:002018-10-30T07:53:36.135-07:00Plimoth Plantation is a great place to learn about the Pilgrims<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Each fall,
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>as November nears, our thoughts turn to
the bountiful feast soon to be spread before us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Though
harvest feasts have e been taking place since almost the beginning of time, the
Pilgrims are generally credited with holding the first Thanksgiving in what is
now the state of Massachusetts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">If you’ve
ever wondered what life was like for those colonists, you’ll definitely want to
visit Plimoth Plantation, a re-creation of the Pilgrim village as it was in
1627. It is one of the most interesting living history museums you’ll ever
visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Although
it doesn’t sit on the original village site, the recreated village mirrors that
one much as it was a few years after the Pilgrims arrived in 1620. There are
houses, barns, storehouses, gardens and fields. At any of these places you’ll
find “Pilgrims” going about their daily life. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Actors playing some of the people who lived
there in 1627 will explain how they came to the New World and what they’re
doing now. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Plimoth Pilgrims taking a break.</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
actors, dressed in period costumes, are well versed in the history of their
character and are quite believable.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When
I visited there, a woman who had lived in Holland before coming over
on the Mayflower was telling about that experience. A man from the Netherlands
began talking to her in Dutch; they carried on a conversation for several
minutes. When it was over, everyone asked him how her Dutch was.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He said she spoke an archaic version of
Dutch, while he spoke modern Dutch, but they were still able to understand each
other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The actors
are superb and well-controlled. They would have to be to answer some of the
visitors’ questions. For one thing, they don’t know anything about what
happened after 1627. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So if a visitor
asks them what they think of man walking on the moon, they’ll look amazed and
tell you something like that is unthinkable and could never happen – all with a
straight face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">At the
village site, you’ll also meet with Native Americans who will talk about how
the arrival of the colonists changed their culture. They will be speaking from
a 21<sup>st</sup> century perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Besides
the 17<sup>th</sup> century village, Plimoth Plantation museum also includes
Mayflower II. The replica of the original ship can be found at the
waterfront.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here, you’ll find actors
portraying original colonists who came on the first Mayflower. The Mayflower II
was much tinier than I expected and it was hard to imagine that many people
crammed into so little space. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plimoth Plantation is locate in Plymouth, Massachusetts.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Re-creation of the original Pilgrim village</i></b></td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-74137267353556160482018-10-23T16:22:00.000-07:002018-10-23T16:22:09.918-07:00Dimmit County Courthouse is landmark in Carrizo Springs, Texas<br />
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<b><i>Dimmit County Courthouse</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Even
before it was built in the early 1880s, the Dimmit County Courthouse in Carrizo
Springs, Texas, generated controversy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The initial
architect designed a building that was deemed too expensive to build. So the
new county, organized in 1880, hired a second architect. His drawings were
suspiciously like the first plans, but without certain features such as a
tower, that lowered the cost to build. The first architect sued the county and settled
out of court for $400.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Italianate
style building was finally constructed in 1884.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The county
government grew and 41 years later, it needed more room. Instead of demolishing
the old courthouse, it was enlarged, with sides being extended and entrances
moved. Ionic columns and a recessed porch were added to the north side. The
remodeled building was in the Classical Revival style.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Problems
developed as the building aged over the decades. In 2002, the county won a $2.4
million grant to restore the courthouse to the condition it was in when
remodeling was completed in 1927.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-30346113016203049482018-10-16T15:19:00.000-07:002018-10-16T15:19:05.525-07:00Old Pecos County jaiil now houses a law enforceent museum<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Pecos
County Jail is a good place to learn about law and order in the Old West,
namely Fort Stockton in West Texas.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The jail, Fort
Stockton’s second, began life in 1884. The two-story sandstone structure would
be used until 2000. Prisoners were housed on the second floor, with the first
floor set aside for offices for the sheriff and his deputies. The lower floor
also contained the sheriff’s living quarters.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The jail
was enlarged in the early 1900s, but otherwise remains much as it was: stark
with ugly cells that should have made people think twice about committing a
crime.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Today the
jail houses a museum devoted to sheriffs and local law enforcement. It is
located at 101 West Gallagher Street across from the county courthouse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Free tours of the old jail are available by appointment
only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Long before
it was a military post, Comanche Springs in what is now West Texas, was a
watering hole for Indians. They camped there while traversing the Comanche
Trail to Chihuahua, Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The U.S.
Army discovered it in 1949 and 10 years later established a post there, calling
it Camp Stockton after<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Robert Field
Stockton, a Navy commodore who helped capture California during the Mexicans-American
War.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Since several major overland routes
passed through the area, it made an ideal place for the Army to protect
travelers on these routes. Besides the Comanche Trail, the routes included the
Butterfield Mail route and the El-Paso-San Antonio road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
original camp was built near where the Pecos County courthouse now stands. When
the Civil War broke out, soldiers were called to the east, and it was
eventually taken over by the Confederate Army. Not much was left of the camp in
1867, so it was moved about a half-mile away to its present location on what is
now East Third Street in the town of Fort Stockton. Eventually 35 buildings
were constructed, all but two of adobe; the others were limestone. During the
first couple of decades at the new location, the compound was staffed mainly by
Buffalo Soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
community that sprang up around the Army post was named Fort Stockton in 1881.
The Army abandoned the post in 1886.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Today only
four of the original buildings remain. They are the guardhouse and three officers’
quarters.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Other buildings have been
reconstructed. The fort is on the National Register of Historic Places.</span></div>
Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-1772085609166319122018-10-03T13:16:00.000-07:002018-10-03T13:16:58.643-07:00Safford, Arizona courthouse on National Historic Register<br />
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<b><i>Graham County Courthouse, Safford, Arizona</i></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRgdmyzRAmtifzLltFVM05h-ZIS1nklaO98P8WCEWJkXBP03FQFQV1aooSCLpiOfXALFEpz1KdrnI7Vni3IW5DBlCQlIQ24GGs80nYf0a38ApN6mNT7dtLlNMf0UQEJr_Qt8y-d6BIg/s1600/graham+county+courthouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Graham
County Courthouse in Safford, Arizona, is a dignified building that sits
quietly at 800 West Main Street. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">This
courthouse is the county’s fifth one.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The two-story building would be remarkable today, since it is a public
works project that came in under budget. Voters approved $50,000 to build the
structure in 1915. The final cost was just over $44,000 when it was completed a
year later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The two-story
Ed Paso red brick building is on the <a href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/82002077_text" target="_blank">National Register of Historic Plac</a>es. Its
architectural style is considered Classic Revival/Neo-Classic.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Whatever, it just looks nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">A jail was
originally part of the courthouse, but it was demolished in 1976. The courthouse’s
façade has not been altered otherwise. Many original pieces, such as the ballast
rude, remain in the interior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Two
Arizona Supreme Court Justices began their judicial careers in this courthouse.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-87459405460338969022018-09-26T08:44:00.004-07:002018-09-26T08:44:30.201-07:00Cebtury-old state-of-the-art mine shaft still stands in Jerome, Arizona<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Remnants
of Jerome, Arizona’s great mining past can be found throughout the town but few
are as impressive as the Audrey Headframe Shaft located at the Little Daisy
Mine.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The exhibit
of old mining equipment sits on a hill overlooking Jerome. One hundred years
old, the Audrey shaft is the largest wooden shaft standing in Arizona
today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The 1.900-foot shaft is lined
with concrete. It was used to haul ore up from the mine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was considered state-of-the-art when it
was built-in 1918. Visitors who don’t get dizzy looking down can stand on a
glass floor and look into the depths of the shaft.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Little
Daisy mine was a rich one. During 23 years, starting in 1915, almost 4 million
tons of ore was taken from beneath the earth. Copper dominated the list with 397,000
tons, followed by 221 tons of silver and 5-1.2 tons of gold.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The ore was transported to the railhead in
the valley below by burros and train. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The fenced
in mining equipment is a public park today maintained by <a href="https://jeromehistoricalsociety.com/audrey-headframe-park/" target="_blank">Jerome Historical
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-63288883721922980142018-09-19T11:40:00.000-07:002018-10-09T16:25:29.341-07:00Jerome, Arizona: once wicked, now peaceful<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The view from Jerome</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Perched on
Cleopatra Hill overlooking some pretty awesome Arizona scenery, Jerome isn’t
the town it once was.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Some 140
years ago, Jerome was a wild copper mining town, known as the “wickedest“t own
in the West. Founded in 1876 mining camp to retrieve the rich copper ore
beneath the soil Jerome, at one time was the fourth largest city in the Arizona
Territory. Its population peaked at 15,000 in the 1920s. But has shrunk to a
mere 450 people today. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(Its low point
was about 50 people in the 1950s and 1960s.) The city now bills itself as the “largest
ghost town in America.”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Downtown Jerome</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The town
is on the National Historic Register. As you drive by the commercial buildings
and aging houses, it’s easy to see why. Many buildings boast plaque describing
what businesses were there in the town’s heyday.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Home of the deepest existing wooden mine shaft</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Jerome was
home to the largest copper mine in Arizona, digging up about 3 million tons of
ore a month at its peak. Mining equipment is sprinkled around in a few places,
including Aubrey Headrame Park, which overlooks the city.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The town
doesn’t draw too many miners these days, but lots of tourists as it is reinventing
itself as a tourist destination and artist colony.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">This
northern Arizona town is just 20 miles from Sedona with its gorgeous red rock
formations and 90 miles from Phoenix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">See more photos of Jerome on my <a href="https://youtu.be/bfsZIAQDIFE" target="_blank">YouTube </a>channel.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-19625685955785458612018-09-04T12:17:00.000-07:002018-09-04T12:17:14.382-07:00Arizona's Mogollon Rim offers spectacular views<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<b><i>Mogollon Rim on a rainy da</i></b>y</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Take a tip from something we
learned the hard way: Don’t visit northern Arizona’s Mogollon Rim on a rainy
day.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While the views are still nice,
they’re even better on a sunny day. Spectacular is more like it.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">But even on a cloudy, rainy day,
you’ll still be able to see for miles. We accessed it at a visitor center on
Highway 260, aka Mogollon Trail, between Payson and Show Low. Here, the views
are of rolling forested hills, but other sections feature rough terrain with
deep canyons, and rocks dating back billions of years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">An unpaved road from the
visitor center takes motorists down into the canyon, but our hotel said it’s
not recommended for subcompact cars, which we have.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The Mogollon Rim stretches
200 miles across Arizona, from Yawapai County to the border with New Mexico.
This geological wonder is on the southwestern edge of the Colorado
Plateau.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>With elevations up to 5,000
feet, it’s a good place to cool off for escapees from southern Arizona’s
blazing summer temperatures. Camping, hiking and fishing are popular
activities.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Mogollon Rim may have been
named for Juan Mogollon, a colonial governor of New Mexico. Or, it could be
named for the Spanish word for mistletoe, a parasitic plant that can kill --
not kiss -- the rim’s gorgeous pine trees.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Just as unclear is how to
pronounce the name of this “backbone of Arizona.” Supposedly, the official pronunciation
is “muggy yawn,” but you’ll hear locals call it “mew goo lin” or “mo goo lin.” For
sure, if you ask for directions to “mow go lawn,” they’ll wonder what you’re
talking about.</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-56769640161896132412018-09-02T13:12:00.000-07:002018-09-11T09:11:10.910-07:00Showman Buffalo Bill Cody also a miner in Arizona<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Most
people know William Frederick Cody as a Pony Express rider, Indian fighter,
buffalo hunter and internationally as a showman. He was also a gold miner in
southern Arizona.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Born in
Iowa in 1846, he moved with his family Canada and then to Kansas where his
father operated a trading post at an Indian agency. Young Cody went to work to
support his family after his father died in 1857. He became enamored of gold at
age 14 and was on his way to California when, he became a Pony Express rider,
outsmarting outlaws and Indians as he rode his 45-mile route.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">He scouted
for the Union Army against the Indians during the Civil War and continued doing
so after the war. He was given the Medal of Honor for his actions during the
Plains War with the Indians. Cody received the nickname of “Buffalo Bill,”
after killing more than 4,200 buffalo in 18 months to supply meat for the
Kansas Pacific Railroad.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">He turned
to acting when he was 26 years old. Reportedly he wasn’t very good at it, but
the crowds loved him anyway. He founded his Wild West show in 1883, eventually
touring throughout the United States and Europe.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">But the
quest for precious metals that inspired a young<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cody to head for California never really
left him. In 1903 he invested in mining ventures, primarily at Camp Bonita, in
the foothills of the Catalina Mountains near Oracle, Arizona. Reportedly, he
never visited the mine until 1910. Besides gold, the Camp Bonito mines also
contained silver and tungsten. The light bulb invented by Thomas Edison used
tungsten from Cody’s mines. </span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Cody often
camped at the mine or stayed in nearby Oracle if his wife was with him. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He eventually owned property in the foothills,
with a home, La Casa del High Jinks, built there in 1933. This house today is
on the National Register of Historic Places.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The High
Jinks ranch is located up a winding dirt road. Itt offers respite for hikers on the <a href="http://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2016/01/arizona-trail-challenges-hikers.html" target="_blank">Arizona Trail</a>. Remains of some mining
operations can be seen at the entrance to the compound.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-29744680420157561812018-08-28T15:42:00.000-07:002018-08-28T15:50:30.005-07:00Cibique, Arizona, site of fight that kicked off new round of Apache wars<br />
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<b><i>Entering Cibique</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Cibique, Arizona,
is a quiet community of about 1,300 souls surrounded by rolling hills. Dogs and
horses freely roam the streets; the community’s middle and high schools are
topped by a dome that can be seen from blocks away.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">But
Cibique wasn’t always this peaceful.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">In August
1881, it was the scene of a battle between the Apaches and the cavalry from
<a href="ehttp://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2016/06/fort-apache-from-19th-century-fort-" target="_blank">Fort Apache</a> that ultimately resulted in the mass defection of the post’s Indian
scouts and Canon Apache warriors joining forces with Geronimo.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Unhealthy
conditions and corruption were the rule on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation,
A respected medicine man, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Nock-ay-det-klinne</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,
began holding ghost dances in the village as the Apaches tried to cope with the
disruption of a lifestyle they had enjoyed for centuries. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some of these ceremonies took place near Fort
Apache, with the Army’s Indian scouts attending. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Because of this, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Nock-ay-det-klinne</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,
who had counseled Geronimo and Cochise, among other Apache leaders, became a
target for the cavalry, especially as fort officers became suspicious of the
scouts who attended the ceremonies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Army
soon came to mistrust the scouts, fearing they would side with the other
Apaches should an uprising occur. They confiscated their weapons.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">On August
29, the Sixth Cavalry with 79 enlisted men and 23 scouts left Fort Apachte to
arrest <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Nock-ay-det-klinne</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,
the medicine man. After several days of riding over rough, rocky terrain, the
Army reached <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Nock-ay-det-klinne</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">’s
camp. They started back to the fort with the medicine man in custody.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">A battle
erupted as the Army began to make camp for the night. It became more deadly
when the scouts turned against the soldiers, six of whom were killed before the
scouts began defending the Army. Later that night, after burying their dead,
the Army sneaked out under cover of darkness. It was a victory for the Apaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">During the
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his wife and son, were killed, further inciting the Apaches. Two days later,
Apaches attacked the fort, and later joined forces with other regional Apache
tribes, including the Chiruicahuas, to set off a regional uprising. It was a war
that was to last for two years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Cibique is
located on the White Mountain Apache Reservation on Indian Highway 12, about 12 miles from Highway 60, a few<span style="color: #000120;"> miles south of the Fort Apache </span> junction. If there are any monuments marking the battle
site, they are not easily found.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A bison welcomes visitors to the Shops at Bison Ranch</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Shops at Bison Ranch is more than just a small shopping
mall. It can also double as a tourist attraction with its neat collection of outdoor
bronze sculptures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This Overgaard, Arizona, mall is eye-catching to begin with,
featuring colorful old-fashioned store fronts, but drive slowly around it and
through the exclusive subdivision of cabins in the back to see a collection of
Western sculptures, including buffalo and bronc riders.</span><b></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The sculptures remind me of the glorious bronze statues
located on Main Street in <a href="https://youtu.be/EDL-i0rI8AQ" target="_blank">Joseph, Oregon</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Shops at Bison Ranch is located about 30 miles west of Show
Low on Highway 260, also known as the Mogollon Trail, which connects Show Low
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Western sculptures, including buffalo and bronc riders.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sculptures remind me of the glorious bronze statues found on Main Street in <a href="https://youtu.be/EDL-i0rI8AQ" target="_blank">Joseph, Oregon</a>. </span><br />
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Low on Highway 260, also known as the Mogollon Trail, which connects Show Low
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">If you’re traveling through southern Mexico and Carlsbad
Caverns isn’t on your list of sights to see, put it there. This phenomenon of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Located in the Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns was
formed 250 million years ago when it was the coastline for an inland sea.
Inside you’ll find 119 caves with stunning stalactite and stalagmite formations.
Some look like big boulders, others like gigantic icicles.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These limestone formations are all stunning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The formations can be found in “rooms,” some of which are
huge. The Big Room, for example, got its name because it’s the biggest down there.
It is 4,000 feet long, 625 feet wide and 285 feet high. It is the fifth largest
cavern in North America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Formations and caves have names, such as the Balloon Ballroom,
Witch’s Finger, Chocolate High, Halloween Hall and Left Hand Tunnel. Signage
throughout describes what you’re looking at.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">And, of course, there’s the Bat Cave, so named because the
cavern’s majority of bats sleep here during the day. They leave at sunset in
swarms that’s a sight to see if you’re there at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Carlsbad became a national monument in 1923 and a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/cave/index.htm" target="_blank">national park</a> in 1930.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The caverns are accessible by hiking down a trail from the
natural entrance or by elevator. I hiked down the trail when I first visited
there in 1972 and found the paved steep walkway and handrails slippery with bat
guano. To say the least, I was perturbed when I got to the bottom and saw the
elevator.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I took it back up. When I
visited again in the spring of 2017, I took the elevator both ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The caverns are handicapped accessible. Wheelchairs are
permitted on the main trail, but only to a certain point. After that, you’ll
have to retrace your way back to the “lobby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Carlsbad Caverns is open daily, except for Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You can see more pictures of Carlsbad Caverns on my Youtube
<a href="https://youtu.be/vuHJ2i2GnUQ" target="_blank">slideshow</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">It may
look like snow and ice are covering the roads and hills, but don’t let
appearances fool you. It’s sand. White sand. Like in White Sands National
Monument.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The white
sand here is considered one of the world’s natural wonders. You can walk on it
(even barefoot if you want), slide on it, camp on it, hike on it or bicycle on
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The white
sand is actually salt gypsum crystal, but from a distance you’d be hard pressed
to differentiate it from snow. The gypsum comes from the nearby San Andres and
Sacramento mountains. Rain dissolves the gypsum and carries it to the Tularoso
Basin where it dries out and becomes sand. Thanks to the wind, it then forms
into dunes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
monument is located in southern New Mexico, about 16 miles southwest of
Alamagordo. The white sands have starred in a few monies, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hang ‘em High</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Young Guns II</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">During
World War II, White Sands was used as a missile testing site. Testing continues
today. The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/whsa/index.htm" target="_blank">National Park Service</a> warns hikers they might come across active missiles,
which should not be disturbed. At times the monument is closed when missiles
are being tested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Otherwise the monument is open daily except for Christmas Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">An
old wooden church sits quietly on a street corner in Fort Stockton, Texas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Constructed
in 1896, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is the oldest church in the Pecos
region. Originally called St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, It was built in Pecos,
54 miles northwest of Fort Stockton, and moved to its present location at the
intersection of Second Street and Spring Drive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Members
of the congregation bought the old church and placed it on land donated by Dr.
D.J. Sirley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interior
furnishings in this Victorian-style church include an ebony cross.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Services
are held every Sunday at the church.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
church has been a Texas landmark since 1966.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">There is no more sacred ground in Texas than the site of an
early Spanish mission, Mission San Antonio de Valero, more commonly known as
The Alamo. Texans today consider it a shrine. It is an icon for the Lone Star
state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The mission might have ended its days in peaceful obscurity
except for a bloody battle that took place there in 1836 during the Texas
Revolution for independence from Mexico. It was the turning point in the
revolution. While the Texans may have lost the battle of the Alamo, a few
months later they won their war for independence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Located in what today is the heart of San Antonio and surrounded
by modern skyscrapers, the Alamo was built by the Franciscans in 1718. It was a
combination of mission, hospital and fortress on the banks of the San Antonio
River. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The battle for the Alamo began on February 23, 1836, when
Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna amassed 6,000 troops outside the
mission. With Texas defenders numbering only around 200, the conclusion was
foregone from the start. Still, the Texans held on for 13 days before being
overrun and massacred by the Mexican Army.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Mexican troops had been stationed at the mission since the
early 1800s, but were routed from their post by Texans in December 1835.
Getting the mission back was revenge for them.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<b><i>Davy Crockett</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Among the Texas dead were William Travis, fort commander;
Jim Bowie, 40, frontiersman and inventor of the famous Bowie knife, and Davy
Crockett, 49, former Congressman and famed <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU2o2_aG-7ymjOZpCA1_OCd8MtNi6uuZzjMZ3oIhFHhRHg9W8RXDfAGmDuCfruZ8hFwgFBqC5vlU19nk34x4L1VG6cfgxYo4u7SId24PElab8LWFZaUV1b6Xs8P7Eiwpvegwn3KL7aw/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU2o2_aG-7ymjOZpCA1_OCd8MtNi6uuZzjMZ3oIhFHhRHg9W8RXDfAGmDuCfruZ8hFwgFBqC5vlU19nk34x4L1VG6cfgxYo4u7SId24PElab8LWFZaUV1b6Xs8P7Eiwpvegwn3KL7aw/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>frontiersman. You can read about how
the trio ended up in Texas, far room their homes, in <i>Three Roads to The Alamo</i>
by<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>William C. Davis. A <a href="http://www.thealamo.org/remember/history/defenders/index.html" target="_blank">list of the defenders</a> who died during the battle can be found on the Alamo's official wesite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">If you visit the Alamo today, you’d be hard pressed to
imagine the bloody conflict that took place there. The setting is an oasis
filled with lush vegetation and a slow moving canal filled with vibrant orange
fish. Since Texans consider the Alamo a shrine, visitors are cautioned to dress
and behave respectfully while they’re on the grounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The Alamo is open daily, except for Christmas Day, at 300
Alamo Plaza. Admission is free.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3W9ZI_4PZQ_0DDCZYtaYk2FnUqEbiTuHLLQB6E27beuxuPK92q-hc5rgoCl7gL3YyFWxB-n1UoyOPcLDcjj2C-xmFoOa9GotNSyd36ATpjGFinHYBdYg4QXPEWHL_t_CsQ4RdLVQy4Q/s1600/22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">More photos of the Alamo can be found on my YouTube slideshow,
<i><a href="https://youtu.be/wSsCT7dL-7o" target="_blank">Remember the Alamo!</a>.</i> </span></div>
<i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-77445480031368380552017-08-03T16:28:00.001-07:002017-08-03T16:30:26.703-07:00Stunnning chapel in Arizona's stunning red rock country<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">It’s not
often a church is a city’s major tourist attraction. A few that come to mind
are St. Peter’s in Rome, Westminster Abbey in London and the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You probably
wouldn’t put a tiny church in Sedona, Arizona, on the list.</span></div>
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<b><i>Side view of the Chapel of the Holy Cross</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Yet the
Chapel of the Holy Cross is the most visited and photographed place in Sedona,
an upscale community in north central Arizona. Sedona is very scenic,
surrounded by gorgeous red rock where off-road vehicle tours of the area are
popular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">It is this
very setting, however, that makes the chapel so spectacular.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is built on red rocks with more red rocks
and brilliant blue skies as a backdrop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The chapel
is stunningly simple; there is elegance in its demeanor. It is a place that
brings peace to the soul. This is just what its founder, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Marguerite
Brunswig Staude, intended. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">A student of the visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright,
she designed the chapel to be inspirational in memory of her mother. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She paid for the chapel herself. It is now
administered by the Catholic church, but is considered to be
non-denominational, inviting all faiths to pray here.</span></div>
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<b><i>A small shrine along the walkway</i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The design was ahead of its time, featuring a large cross
that spans the width and <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>of the small
chapel andlenghtwise extends down to the red rock below.. Plain glass windows
behind the cross allow worshippers to look to the heavens for inspiration. The
chapel’s interior has no Stations of the Cross found in Catholic churches, but
rather four colored panels – two on each wall. Simple benches provide seating.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXoHTdfXZOuQh-BWkOgXeO8Vr_1plH8S8voRDPJ4ca0rswvJXTsyneAV_qffLEzoq9ILV-XxW9qlud87hNEDyM31k7-T7JwF07UxOVsl3iwArnY9GCJp28ImmzcoZv-Cf0KE2pWt4BrA/s1600/holy+cross+1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The Chapel of the Holy Cross is located at 780 Chapel
Road; take the Chapel Road exit off Highway 179 to the end. It is open from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. A few handicapped parking spaces are available at the
entrance ramp, but otherwise you’ll have to park alongside the road and walk up
the hill.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The walkway to the chapel is
another uphill climb, but it’s paved and is wheelchair accessible.</span> </div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-53453230597975652782017-07-31T13:32:00.000-07:002017-07-31T13:32:10.369-07:00Sab Antonio River Walk: a Texas oasis<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbDUuBpMdiNfq1RtP8caaJfmC2p2JDCKK6JjcIMFZ-IxlAC3oN50Vj3Lo8VYLwubKSF0fCbH0ndMM2Znf7cShPphT2iLR4-X6NIOcoy9SIpONU2YWPHVsc2bMbxmMN92wHSEPOsBdIA/s1600/sa+eiceerwalk+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbDUuBpMdiNfq1RtP8caaJfmC2p2JDCKK6JjcIMFZ-IxlAC3oN50Vj3Lo8VYLwubKSF0fCbH0ndMM2Znf7cShPphT2iLR4-X6NIOcoy9SIpONU2YWPHVsc2bMbxmMN92wHSEPOsBdIA/s320/sa+eiceerwalk+1.jpg" width="282" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Like any
big city, San Antonio, Texas, is a bustling place, filled with tall buildings
and heavily trafficked streets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Escaping
this busy concrete jungle is easier than you might then.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Why drive miles out into the country when you
can find an oasis in downtown San Antonio? Just head for River Walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">River Walk
is a series of waterways that runs several miles through San Antonio’s city
center. It is second only to the Alamo in the hierarchy of the city’s top
tourist attractions. As well it should be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Wide
sidewalks line both sides of the canal. There is lush greenery everywhere, plus
fountains and islands used by tour boats to reverse their course. This isn’t
Venice, but it’s easy to imagine a gondolier singing "Santa Lucia” as he glides
his craft through the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Also
lining the canal’s banks are shops, galleries, restaurants and bars, and major
hotels. River Walk is indeed a world class entertainment center.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">There are
several public staircases linking the street to River Walk. You can also access
it, as we did, from the lobby of a hotel. On-street parking can be difficult to
find at times, so you may want to use a hotel’s parking lot.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-29609103224008413552017-06-15T17:15:00.000-07:002017-06-15T17:17:13.863-07:00Desert plants shine in West Texas garden<br />
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<i>Desert garden at Langtry, Texas</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Whether you have
a green thumb or are just need a break from driving through West Texas, a stop
at the Judge <a href="http://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2017/05/judge-roy-bean-law-west-of-pecos.html" target="_blank">Roy Bean</a> Visitor Center at Langtry might be just what you need.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The center
is home to the original saloon/courtroom where the judge dispensed both booze
and justice. The building stands in an oasis of more than 100 plants native to
the Desert Southwest. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">This
xeriscape garden features a variety of cacti, from yucca to prickly pear to
ocotillo, as well as dozens of trees and shrubs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The garden is particularly pretty when the
cacti and other plants are in bloom. Plants are labeled, so they’ easily
identifiable. The visitor center also has a brochure with a detailed listing of
the garden’s offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">There’s a
wide paved walkway leading though the garden. It only takes a few minutes to
walk, plus the trail is wheelchair accessible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The garden
is available during visitor center open hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Memorial
through Labor days, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the rest of the year.</span><br />
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A "prospector" roams Wickenburg's main street. </h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Wiclenburg,
Arizona, is a pretty town, with old buildings that tell the story of its
historic past. It’s located on the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert, along
the H</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">assayampa River.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">It was
founded in 1863 by Henry Wickenburg, a German immigrant who was prospecting for
gold, though fur trappers roamed the area as early as the 1830s. Before that,
it was home to the Yavapai Indian tribe, who didn’t much tale to the intruders.
Bloody battles between the Indians and white man ensued, and the tribe was not
subdued until late in 1872.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Wickenburg
is peaceful today. Life appears slow placed, unlike its neighbor to the
southeast, Phoenix, with its five million residents.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Wickenburg
is located on Highway 93. It’s well worth a detour, if only to see the statuary
on the city streets. All pay homage to the city’s past.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">But there
are plenty of other things to do here. If you’re around on Saturday morning, take
a tour of the Vulture Mine, which gave up $30 million in gold. You can visit the
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“jail tree” which served as the town jail for almost 30 years; prisoners weren’t
locked up, but instead were chained to the tree. And if you make an appointment
in advance, you can also tour Henry Wickenburg’s home. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The chamber
of commerce can offer more ideas on things to see and do in this pleasant small
town.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-25422483491461978272017-05-20T14:26:00.001-07:002017-05-20T14:26:49.483-07:00Judge Roy Bean: the law west of the Pecos<br />
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<i>Judge Roy Bean's saloon and "courthouse"</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">If Roy
Bean were a judge today, he’d probably be kicked off the bench faster than you
could say “the law west of the Pecos.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">He held
court in his saloon, the Jersey Lilly, or outside the porch. He would interrupt
court sessions to serve customers drinks.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>His decisions were often quirky, such as fining an offender $30 and a
round of drinks for the house, with the admonition to pay for the drinks first.</span></div>
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<i>Judge Roy Bean</i></h3>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">He had one
book of Texas statutes in his law library, but rarely consulted it. Instead he
made up law as he went along. He nicknamed himself “the law west of the Pecos,”
and became a legend in his own time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">After his
death, he was nicknamed “the hanging judge,” though he only sentenced two men
to hang.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Perhaps the moniker is due more
to his almost having been hanged </span></div>
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<i>Lilly Langtry</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">himself. Prior to landing in west Texas, Bean wasn’t
the most law abiding citizen.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once friends
of a man he killed strung him up and then left. The horse didn’t bolt and the
bride of the man Bean killed </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">cut him
down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">But Roy
Bean also had a softer side. For years he corresponded with the British actress
and femme fatale, Lilly Langtry. He named his saloon, Jersey Lilly, after her,
He also claimed to have named the town where he lived, Langtry, after her,
though other accounts suggest it was named for a railroad employee with the
same last name.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was always inviting
her to visit “her” town, but she never made it until a few months after he
died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Bean was
born in 1826 in Kentucky and died in 1903 in Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The saloon
where he held court can be visited in Langtry. It’s located behind a Texas tourism
office and shares space with a garden devoted to Southwest desert plants.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A small museum about Bean shares space with
tourism information. The site is open daily; from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is
free.</span><br />
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<i>The bar where Roy Bean dispensed booze and justice</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Artesia is
a town in New Mexico that might better be spelled ARTesia because of its
impressive collection of street art.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Just
driving round the downtown area you’ll see a series of bronze sculptures that
depict the history of the city. Murals and other art enhance Artesia’s
likeability.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">But it is
the bronze sculptures that are the most impressive. They include oil rig
workers, a school teacher, a cattle drive boss, rustlers and, my favorite, the
Vaquero. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Vaqueros
or Spanish cowboys loomed large in Artesia’s heritage. This magnificent
sculpture is the second of three statues in the Cattle Drive series that
depicts cattle ranching in the 1880s in the Pecos Valley. The others are the
Trail Boss and the Rustler. The Vaquero is located at Second and Main. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The
Vaquero was sculpted by Michael Hamby and unveiled in 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Just a
short distance away at Second and Texas, the Cattle Rustler plies his trade in a
roundabout.It is the final sculpture in the Cattle Drive series.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10644439662368364569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335823109475049798.post-6519980635182109552017-03-28T20:16:00.002-07:002017-03-28T21:03:21.421-07:00Apache Traiil: scenic route through Arizona's Superstition Mountains<br />
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<i>The Apache Trail</i></h3>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px;">If you’re
looking for a scenic drive through mountainous desert terrain, then the Apache
Trail fills the bill. State Highway 88, the road’s official name, runs through
Arizona’s famous Superstition Mountains, It is one of the most scenic drives in
Arizona.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNzdlPZY5SFR9Y2UxlQQ7uG2NZDm5w5A7hP3y7dPj2ZK8XaJxtx9yECfdEY27Pdw-xcDcEDcU4jZViq_iQfOxNCSiFAqqhRYvTYCbAoHO9j1zfG2DDKvOGACMG4tpoBTgJSGftYZQGA/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div>
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looking for a scenic drive through mountainous desert terrain, then the Apache
Trail fills the bill. State Highway 88, the road’s official name, runs through
Arizona’s famous Superstition Mountains, It is one of the most scenic drives in
Arizona.</span></span></div>
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Trail starts at Apache Junction, 35 miles east of Phoenix, and basically ends
43 miles later at <a href="http://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2017/01/lake-roosvelt-arizona-offers-outdoor-fun.html" target="_blank">Theodore Roosevelt Lake</a>, though Globe, south on Highway 188,
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">The trail
follows the route used by Apache Indians on horseback as they moved around the
desert. Later, stage coaches would travel the road.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A more formal road was completed in 1905. It is
Arizona’s first historic highway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">From high
above, you’ll look down on the blue Salt River and several of its reservoirs,
heavily used by fishermen and a variety of watercraft.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There are at least three boat launches along
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">A majority
of the road is dirt, with switchbacks and sharp turns, narrow and steep. The
views, however, are absolutely amazing.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The road is essentially open all year, though you’ll probably want to
avoid it during the summer rainy season because mud may make some places
impassable.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>March and April, before the
weather gets too hot, is a good time to drive it because the landscape is
ablaze with gaily colored wildflowers.</span></div>
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<i>Driving along the Salt River</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Driving
the Apache Trail is to be savored, not rushed, though rushing it would be difficult
since speeds are limited to 10 mph or 15 mph. It took us three hours to drive
the dirt road portion of the trail. That included a stop for a picnic lunch at
a lakeside campground, plenty of stops for photos and at pull-offs to allow
oncoming traffic to pass by, and stopping for a traffic jam caused by an RV bus
towing a car that broke down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Because of
sharp turns, steep hills, one-lane bridges and narrow roads, it’s not a good
idea to take a large RV over the Apache Trail. Really big RVs make it difficult
for smaller, oncoming cars to get by.</span></div>
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<i>Awesome scenery along the Apache Trail</i></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">At the
west end of the trail, you’ll pass by Tortilla Flat, Lost Dutchman State Park,
Canyon Lake, the reconstructed ghost town of <a href="http://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2017/01/goldfield-arizona-replica-of-old-ghost.html" target="_blank">Goldfield</a>, and the Superstition
Museum/<a href="http://cherylsusa.blogspot.com/2016/12/many-westerns-shot-at-arizonas.html" target="_blank">Apacheland</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Tips for
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Take along a picnic lunch to enjoy
on the way. There are plenty of lookouts with picnic tables along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Take along toilet paper and hand
sanitizer or water to wash your hands. There are several restrooms along the
route, but none have water and most were out of toilet paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">If you don’t have nerves of steel,
you may want to drive east from Apache Junction. This means you’ll have the
inside next to the hills and mountains. If you drive west from Roosevelt Lake,
as we did, you’ll be on the outside overlooking the canyons. Guardrails are few
and far between. Most of the time there are just dirt berms between you and the
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