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We took a hike to the ruins of Charleston, AZ. Charleston was a silver mining town like Tombstone, about eight miles from Tombstone. This is the town where Johnny Behind the Duce killed a mining engineer, and supposedly Wyatt Earp stood off a lynch mob when Johnny was in Tombstone waiting for trial. There were a number of petroglyphs on the rocks. It’s amazing they haven’t been defaced by the 1800’s miners, or today’s thugs.
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We went on another hike…Yes, we’re becoming hiking fools. This time it was to the Chiricahua Mountains, a National Park about an hour from where we’re staying. The locals just call it the Chiricahuas. It is a combination of Colorado’s forested mountains and the hoodoo rocks of Brice and Zion National Parks. It’s hard to believe the Chiricahuas are in the middle of what many people consider a desert.
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We’ve been doing a lot of hiking the last few weeks. Last week we went to Ft. Bowie. Ft. Bowie was established back in 1862 to guard Apache Pass. It’s a mile and a half intermediate hike back to it.
We would recommend it for anyone who would like to get a vision of what military life was like in the 1800’s.
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