Allen, a movie and television performer of the A typical interstate town, Willcox is most noteworthy for its apple orchards and the Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum. Triple-Six joins Interstate Highway 10 near Willcox, Ariz. Ten miles from the main highway is a National Forest campground where a short hike through the tall trees and huge rocks demonstrates why Cochise chose this place as one from which to hide from the U.S. Not far past Pearce, at the retirement community of Sunsites, is the turnoff to the east face of the rugged Dragoon Mountains and scenic Cochise Stronghold, where the Apache chief and his followers hid out for more than a decade in the mid-1800s. Smaller mines dot the hills through which the road travels.

The ghost town of Pearce, a few hundred yards off the paved road, is the site of the Commonwealth gold mine, at the turn of the century one of the richest in southern Arizona. There are mines everywhere around southern 666. Copper, silver, gold, turquoise-all have been or are still being mined in this part of the state. Mining has been an important part of southern Arizona history.

The old Tombstone courthouse is a fascinating museum, the first time I`ve heard of a single building being designated a ''state park.'' Bisbee and Tombstone are historical landmarks well worth visiting. 80 is Tombstone, the old-West ''town too tough to die,'' where visitors can stroll Allen Street, once the scene of gunfights and hangings, and see famous OK Corral and Boot Hill Cemetery. 80, boasts underground mine tours and famous Brewery Gulch, formerly a collection of some 50 saloons, brothels and gambling houses.įarther north on U.S. forces should shells fall across the border in Douglas.Ī few miles west of Douglas and Triple-Six, the old mining town of Bisbee lies cradled in a valley of the Mule Mountains. Villa is said to have aimed his artillery fire only in east-west directions because he sought to avoid confrontation with U.S. Here in 1915 Pancho Villa`s army suffered a stinging defeat during the Mexican Revolution, a defeat due in part to the fact that Gen. Unlike better-known border towns, Agua Prieta is not a typical tourist destination, a fact I find appealing. Agua Prieta, its Mexican neighbor, is in the northwestern part of the state of Sonora. Douglas is a southeastern Arizona border town.

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