Arizona
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Route 66 – Near Peach Springs, AZ
Gas Stations That Time Forgot When travel was an adventure! No air condition, day sleeping motels, and small town to small town for food, fuel, tires and repairs.
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San Bernardino Ranch, AZ
John Slaughter Ranch The Sheriff of Tombstone, Cochise County after Wyatt Earp 17 miles East of Douglas Arizona along dirt road paralleling boarder with Mexico In 1884, John Horton Slaughter, a cowboy and lawman originally from Texas, purchased 65,000 acres (26,000 ha) from Perez’s heirs for approximately $80,000. Two-thirds of his property lay in Mexico, with the remaining third in the Arizona Territory. There are ruins on the property now owned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service where a Mormon employee of Slaughter’s built a home (called the Mormon House) straddling the U.S.–Mexico border so he could keep a wife in the United States and a wife in…
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“Wickedest Town in the West” Jerome, AZ
Located near the top of Cleopatra Hill between Prescott and Flagstaff is the historic copper mining town of Jerome, Arizona. Once known as the wickedest town in the west, Jerome was born a copper mining camp, growing from a settlement of tents into a roaring mining community.After its founding in 1876, Jerome was at one time the fourth largest city in Arizona with the population peaking at around 15,000 in the 1920’s. The Great Depression slowed the mining operation and the claim eventually went to Phelps Dodge, who still holds the claim to this day. World War II greatly increased the demand for copper, but after the war demand decreased…
