Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners
Journey to Arizona through over 240 scenic photographic images and 36 stories imparting unusual and bizarre regional happenings throughout history. Read about the Native American ruins and the ancient civilizations that inhabited their stone walls, leaving behind pottery shards, handmade tools, and astonishing petroglyphs etched on boulders. Discover forgotten places, now decaying and abandoned, with accompanying stories behind their rise and fall. Visit six Southwestern mining towns famous for riches, scandals, and hope for new lives. These towns were booming in their heyday, but because of greed, natural disasters, and drying-up mines, they became ghost towns. Meet Wild West outlaws who ended up dead and buried somewhere in the desert. Discover mysterious conundrums either found buried beneath the dirt floor, roaming the barren desert, or made from odd objects, and witness the unusual weather conditions that plague the Southwest. Find ghosts, mummies, and fossils talked about in urban legends of the desert and lost treasures and castles in the mountains. Includes directions and visitor information. Arizona awaits your arrival.
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Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners
Journey to Arizona through over 240 scenic photographic images and 36 stories imparting unusual and bizarre regional happenings throughout history. Read about the Native American ruins and the ancient civilizations that inhabited their stone walls, leaving behind pottery shards, handmade tools, and astonishing petroglyphs etched on boulders. Discover forgotten places, now decaying and abandoned, with accompanying stories behind their rise and fall. Visit six Southwestern mining towns famous for riches, scandals, and hope for new lives. These towns were booming in their heyday, but because of greed, natural disasters, and drying-up mines, they became ghost towns. Meet Wild West outlaws who ended up dead and buried somewhere in the desert. Discover mysterious conundrums either found buried beneath the dirt floor, roaming the barren desert, or made from odd objects, and witness the unusual weather conditions that plague the Southwest. Find ghosts, mummies, and fossils talked about in urban legends of the desert and lost treasures and castles in the mountains. Includes directions and visitor information. Arizona awaits your arrival.
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Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners

Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners

by Julie Ferguson
Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners

Arizona's Back Roads: A Travel Guide to Ghosts, Outlaws, and Miners

by Julie Ferguson

Overview

Journey to Arizona through over 240 scenic photographic images and 36 stories imparting unusual and bizarre regional happenings throughout history. Read about the Native American ruins and the ancient civilizations that inhabited their stone walls, leaving behind pottery shards, handmade tools, and astonishing petroglyphs etched on boulders. Discover forgotten places, now decaying and abandoned, with accompanying stories behind their rise and fall. Visit six Southwestern mining towns famous for riches, scandals, and hope for new lives. These towns were booming in their heyday, but because of greed, natural disasters, and drying-up mines, they became ghost towns. Meet Wild West outlaws who ended up dead and buried somewhere in the desert. Discover mysterious conundrums either found buried beneath the dirt floor, roaming the barren desert, or made from odd objects, and witness the unusual weather conditions that plague the Southwest. Find ghosts, mummies, and fossils talked about in urban legends of the desert and lost treasures and castles in the mountains. Includes directions and visitor information. Arizona awaits your arrival.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780764346071
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 10/28/2014
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 1,015,502
Product dimensions: 9.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Julie Ferguson is a paranormal investigator, photographer, artist, and author. She is a wife, a member of Paranormal Observation and Experimentation group, as well as a member of the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association. Julie lives in Arizona and loves to travel.

Table of Contents

Map Key and Maps 6

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 House of the Spirits 10

Long Forgotten Salado Ruins 11

Ancient Cliff Dwellings 16

Hilltop Mountain Ruins 23

Remnants of the Hohokam 28

Mysteries of Sedona 35

Native American Petroglyphs 46

Chapter 2 Hell for Gold and Squandered Wealth 54

Vulture Mine

(Dead Man's Playground) 55

Globe (Place of Metal) 59

Bisbee (Queen of the Copper Camps) 62

Jerome (Hilltop Ghost Town) 67

Tombstone

(The Town Too Tough to Die) 72

Fairbank (Historic Town Site) 77

Chapter 3 Ascent of the Outlaws 81

The Clantons 82

E. L. Ferguson (Pete Spence) 87

Curly Bill Brocius .89

Big Nose Kate 91

Pearl Hart 96

Gold Dollar 100

Chapter 4 Forsaken to the Elements 105

Discarded Motel 106

The Bee Apartments 110

The Relinquished Trailer Park 114

The Sugar Beet Factory 119

The Domes 126

Hay den Flour Mill 131

Chapter 5 Languishing Cemeteries 135

Adamsville 136

Old Congress Cemetery 140

Fairbank Cemetery 143

Goodyear-Ocotillo Cemetery 145

Morris town Cemetery 148

Mayer Cemetery 150

Chapter 6 Mysterious Conundrums 154

Mummified Bodies 155

Giant Skeletons, Bones, and Bigfoot 159

Extraordinary Castles 164

The Superstition Mountains 170

Chapter 7 Strange Creatures 178

Mermaid and Blowfish 179

Thunderbird 180

Chupacabra 182

Gomphothere 182

Alligator-snapping Turtle 183

Chapter 8 Highway Ghosts 185

Ghost Camels 186

Phantom Hitchhiker 187

The Ghost Bus of Union Pass 188

Devil's High way 189

Conclusion 190

Internet Sites and Visitor Resources 191

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