At 4:00 AM on July 12, 1917, approximately 2,000 armed men fanned out through the residential neighborhoods of Bisbee, Arizona, and the nearby suburb of Warren. They carried rifles and shotguns. They wore white armbands for identification. They had deputization papers signed by Cochise County Sheriff Harry Wheeler.
And over the next several hours, they systematically rounded up 1,286...
In 1877, a cavalry scout named Jack Dunn was chasing Apache raiders through the Mule Mountains of southeastern Arizona Territory when he noticed something glinting in the rock. He reported the discovery to his commanding officer, whose contact list happened to include a San Francisco attorney named DeWitt Bisbee.
Within months, the land was claimed, a company formed, and...
Arizona has more ghost towns per square mile than almost any state in the American West. The combination of mineral wealth, remote terrain, boom-bust mining economics, and a late-19th-century settlement rush created hundreds of communities that flourished briefly and then emptied with almost equal speed when the ore ran out, the railroad bypassed them, or the water supply failed.
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Tombstone, Arizona has a marketing problem that is also, in a backwards way, its greatest asset. Every visitor arrives knowing at least one thing: the gunfight at the OK Corral, October 26, 1881, 30 seconds of violence that produced three dead cowboys and the most documented gunfight in American frontier history.
That singular event, endlessly retold in film, television, and...
Southern Arizona gets flattened by its own famous landmarks. The Grand Canyon is five hours north. Sedona gets its own category. Tucson is the major city. Tombstone earns its famous name. Everything in between, the wine country, the sky island mountain ranges, the birding preserves, the border towns with extraordinary history, the art colonies older than Scottsdale's gallery district,...
Jerome, Arizona is having an identity crisis, in the best possible way. It is simultaneously a ghost town (officially designated one of the largest in America), a thriving arts destination, a wine trail hub, a haunted history landmark, and a jaw-dropping piece of landscape architecture where 19th-century buildings cling to a steep mountainside above one of the most beautiful...
America has a small-town problem. Not the problem people usually talk about, economic decline, population loss, lack of opportunity. The other problem: the best small towns in the country are so systematically overlooked by mainstream travel coverage that millions of people drive past them every year on the way to the same crowded destinations.
This guide exists to fix that.
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Arizona is not just Grand Canyon postcards and Phoenix sprawl. Tucked between its red-rock mesas, desert grasslands, and mountain sky islands lies a parallel Arizona that most visitors never find, a patchwork of Victorian mining towns, Route 66 relics, artist colonies, wine villages, and ghost-town streets where burros still roam free.
These are the small towns that make Arizona one...
Why Bisbee Became Arizona's Most Unlikely Art Town
When the copper mines closed in 1975, Bisbee should have died.
Other Arizona mining towns did. They became ghost towns, empty buildings, abandoned streets, and a few historic plaques.
Bisbee did not die. It transformed. Explore the beautiful Art Galleries Bisbee AZ for your upcoming visit to Bisbee Arizona.
Artists, writers, and musicians discovered the...
Why Take a Tour in Bisbee AZ?
Bisbee is a town that rewards curiosity. Every alley, staircase, and building corner has a story.
The problem is that most of those stories are invisible without someone who knows them.
Bisbee's streets do not follow a grid. The neighborhoods climb canyon walls. The historic district bleeds into semi-ghost towns without clear signage. And the...
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