Since I began my adventure journey a few years ago, Iโve seen a number of ghost towns. On a recent trip through California, however, I was privileged to visit the most intact ghost town I have seen so far.ย Welcome to Helena, California.ย The story of Helena is similar to many towns like it. What …
I LET MY SADDLE FALL, MY WEARY HORSE I TEND, DEAR LORD I HEAR YOU CALL, FOR IโVE REACHED THE END. Poetic and unsettling, whatโs known as the Cowboy Prayer, reads more like a lament. Permanently transfixed along the divide between civilization and the Prescott Wilderness, sewn into a large boulder and overlooking a small …
This historic graveyard, in Southern Arizona, is all that remains of the ghost town of Silverbell. Before Arizona became a state, and the west was still wild, mining activity, according to Arizona State University, began in the area during the 1870s with Charles Brown, a Tuscon resident. His work lasted only a few years before …
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