One reason this is a favorite picnic spot is the Amerind is here. Not only can we picnic among the boulders, we can also visit both the museum & art gallery. The collections of American Indian artifacts & western art are excellent. This is a particularly good place to bring school age children.

I know a lot of Tucson locals who say they have never been to the Amerind because it’s just too far for a day trip. Just FYI: from downtown Tucson, it took us 57 minute to arrive here.

What used to be admin offices on the 2^nd floor will now house TMA’s collection of Pre-Columbian art, Spanish Colonial & Post Colonial art, and Latin American folk art.

The collection will offer enhanced, bilingual didactic materials. Ms. Karen has a degree in Art History, so she’s more familiar with art objects like these. But I particularly appreciate the interpretive material that TMA coordinates with each piece so I can better understand the cultural significance and historical periods from which they were created. Moreover, when we visit a new TMA exhibit, we usually take advantage of the Musuem’s free tours guided by their knowledgeable docents. That way we get a great deal more out of each exhibit than we otherwise would.

Here are 3 examples.

From the Pre-Columbian Collection.

El Tajin Style Stela Fragment, from Orizaba Region of Veracruz, Mexico, Late Formative/Early Classic Era, 100 BCE-250 CE, Serpentine.

This thin Stela with low relief carving depicts a male figure in profile, holding a tasseled object, probably a spear or standard. The border beneath the figure includes a snub-nosed mask, and curvilinear step-fret designs. This motif most likely represents a ruler performing a ritual activity.

The style of the Stela is transitional from the aesthetic of Olmec iconography to the later Maya iconography that dominated the region. This artwork is characteristic of the aesthetic that characterizes El Tajin monuments. Similar low relief carvings depicting rulers and incorporating the diagnostic curvilinear step fret design are found in sites such as Cholula, Puebla, a testament to the extent of socio cultural power exerted by elites in the Gulf region during this time period.

From the Spanish Colonial/Post-Colonial Collection.

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, ca.17th century, wood, paint, gilding, copper, and lace.

This statue depicts the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, as indicated by the crescent moon upon which the Virgin is standing. Recently restored by a professional conservator, with funding provided by a special grant from Institute of Museums and Library Services, the sculpture is a highlight of TMA’s Spanish Colonial/Post-Colonial collection. Most likely of 17^th century origin, it has clearly been painted multiple times. The intention of the over painting seems to have been to change the message conveyed by the statue. Overtime, the elaborate gilt design on the Virgin’s robes was covered with simple blue paint, the complexion of the figure was changed, and, in general, the statue was made to appear less elaborate.

The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception statue provides an interesting insight into how the Catholic Church modified its iconographic message to be more palatable to Mestizo peoples in the New World by depicting the Virgin Mary less as a regal queen and more as a common woman.

From the Latin American Folk Art Collection.

Tree of Life, Aurelio Flores, 1960, ceramic.

This tree of life is a great example of the work in the Latin American Folk Art collection. This elaborate candelabrum, produced in Puebla, was created by Aurelio Flores, a well-known folk artist. The lively tree is bursting with polychrome birds and flowers in a style that is characteristic of the Flores family. This tree of life depicts the vibrancy of Mexican Folk Art and the degree to which individual creativity, tradition, and regional specialization in folk art production are comingled in the production of these vibrant objects.

Southern Arizona has many fine museums. You can find our favorites at SouthernArizonaGuide.com > Main Menu > Museums.

These steps lead to the top of the ridge where, around 500 C.E., a band of Hohokam established a village. Perhaps as many as 300 people lived here until about 1450.

Ms. Karen & I have lived here for 11 years and had never visited Catalina State Park. Last Saturday we discovered what a great Tucson asset it is. There are hiking trails that lead to natural pools, an equestrian center and horseback riding trails, plus several picnic and camping areas. But last Saturday, we went with our guests from New York, Susan & Charlea, to hike the trail that leads to the Romero Ruins.

Around 500 C.E. a band of Hohokam established a village on the ridge that overlooks the wash that became known as Canada de Oro. Here they found year-round water, and plenty of game and useful plants to live a relatively comfortable life for the next 900 years. Around 1450, the Hohokam abandoned this site, but 400 years later Francisco Romero and his family established their cattle ranch on the ruins of the Native American village. The ruins of the Romero’s home are here as well.

Along the Romero Ruins trail there are many interpretive plaques that help us imagine what was once here. Another reason to like Catalina State Park is we can hike with our dogs, so long as they are on a leash.

This time of year there are many docent-led hikes and exhibits at Catalina State Park on the weekends. I took some photos of our Romero Ruins hike that you can view in a slideshow on SouthernArizonaGuide.com.

In a few days I will share with you last Sunday’s adventure to the West entrance of Araviapa Canyon Preserve. This coming Saturday we plan on enjoying the historical re-enactments at the ghost town of Fairbank about 10 miles west of Tombstone on the San Pedro River. Then, for next Sunday, we have permits to hike Araviapa Canyon Preserve from the East entrance.

The announcer obviously knows rodeo, from the contestants to the sometimes complex and seemingly archaic rules. The wranglers were great, as were the clowns, and the audience was definitely engaged. And the contestants? Awesome. These folks are rugged cowboys & cowgirls, and terrific role models for our school-age children. If you’re looking for something to do with the young ones, take them to the rodeo. Lots of food and drink here, and plenty of merchandise to purchase at dozens of booths surrounding the grandstands.

Parking was $5 and the cheapest admission is $12. Some 700 contestants will compete for serious prize money this year. Proceeds from the rodeo go to the University of Arizona Scholarship Fund and other worthy charities.

Here are a few photos I took. You can see more at SouthernArizonaGuide.com.

The Tucson Rodeo began way back in the 1920′s during that era of high morals known as Prohibition: if it was fun, it was prohibited. Don’t miss the Rodeo Parade Museum on the rodeo grounds. And don’t miss the Parade this coming Thursday. Gabby & Mark are Grand Marshalls.

In January 1737, Capitan Juan Bautista de Anza wrote to Bishop Benito Crespo:

“Toward the end of last October, between the Guevavi Mission and the ranchería called Arizona, some balls and slabs of silver were discovered, one of which weighed more than one hundred arrobas (2,500 pounds), a sample of which I am sending to you, Most Illustrious Lord.”

The “Rancheria Arizona” had been established a year or two earlier by a Mexican of Basque descent who named the area by describing, in his Basque language, its most outstanding feature, “Arizona”: the good oak. Rancheria Arizona is about 40 miles southeast of Mission Tumacacori Arizona in the state of Sonora Mexico.

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Guevavi is a name derived from the Papago (now Tohono O’odham) term ge’e vavi, meaning “big spring”. Their village at this place was first visited in 1691 by Jesuit Father Kino, who established 20 missions among the American Indians of the Pimeria Alta (Land of the Upper Pimas). Historically, the mission has been named Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi.

Ruins of Mission Guevavi. Photo courtesy of Tumacacori National Historical Park.

In 1751, a later priest, using Indian labor,  built a 15 foot by 50 foot church, the ruins of which still exist today. Between 1745 to 1751, the resident priest recorded 148 burials at Guevavi, mostly Papago Indians cut down by European diseases.

Several circumstances led to the abandonment of Mission Guevavi: chiefly disease; the Pima Indian Revolt of 1751; and frequent Apache attacks. In 1769, Apaches attacked and killed all but two of the Spanish soldados guarding the mission. After that, the Papago settlement and Catholic mission were moved to Tumacacori.

Mission Tumacacori Luminarias. Photo by John Ashley.

Today, one of the finest attractions in Southern Arizona is the ruins of Mission Tumacacori, now preserved by our National Park Service. On SouthernArizonaGuide.com I have 3 short videos with one of the Park Rangers giving me a behind the scenes tour of Tumacacori. Through the Park Service at Tumacacori, you can arrange a guided tour of Guevavi ruins. I plan on doing that later this spring.
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Camp Grant Parade Grounds

Camp Grant, named for the famous Civil War general, was an Army post built at the confluence of the Gila and San Pedro Rivers so that U.S. soldiers could protect local settlers and miners who had begun to flood into this area near present-day Winkelman in the late 1860′s. From this vantage point, 70 miles north of Tucson, the Army hoped it would also be in good position to protect the San Pedro River overland freight route that ran from New Mexico to California.

The Apaches: Hated and Feared

This area had long been home to various bands of Apaches. The Apaches had few friends among other nearby tribes. Long before the coming of the Spanish, Anglos, and Mexicans, the Apaches had raided other Indian groups and were hated by their neighbors, including the Papago Indians we now call Tohon O’odham or Desert People.

When the Spanish, and later the Anglos and Mexicans began to settle here, the Apaches were happy to raid their ranches, mining camps, settlements, stagecoaches, and wagon trains. Raiding was their way of life. To be a respected Apache male, you had to be a successful raider, which meant you had to be a skilled thief and murderer.

Generally, the Apaches were after anything they believed would benefit themselves, particularly horses, mules, and ammunition, but also items they could trade, such as slaves, for whiskey and better weapons. They were utterly unconcerned about others. As such, they were “good” raiders in the sense that they were usually successful, at least in the early years before the Civil War and the arrival of the U.S. Army. The Apaches excelled at lightening fast ambushes and seldom left their victims alive. It took the Army a quarter of a century to solve the “Apache Problem”, which they accomplished by both force and treachery.

Anyone living in Southern Arizona and Southern New Mexico or Northern Sonora and Chihuahua Mexico who wasn’t Apache was rightly terrified of them. When confronted with a superior force, such as the U.S. Cavalry, the Apaches were adept at guerilla warfare. From the establishment of Camp Grant in 1871, it would be another 15 years before the legendary Apache shaman, Geronimo, would surrender for the 4^th and final time. Even then, it took a brilliant General named Crook, 5,000 soldiers, and several hundred Indian scouts to run him to ground.

Apache “Feeding Stations”

During this time, one Apache band after another surrendered as the number of warriors declined from old age, but more often death in battle.  Following surrender, most were sent to reservations where sickness – particularly malaria, malnutrition, exposure, and hopelessness further reduced their numbers.

In 1870 the commander of the Army in the Arizona Territory established “feeding stations” to provide rations for those Apaches who surrendered. By doing so, the Army hoped to convince all “renegade” Apaches to cease raiding and accept reservation life.

Lt. Royal Whitman

Soon, some Apache bands indicated a willingness to give up raiding and adopt a sedentary lifestyle in return for adequate rations.

In February 1871, five old, hungry Apache women in ragged clothes came to Camp Grant looking for a son of one of the women who had been taken prisoner. The senior commander, Lt. Royal Whitman, had just arrived from the east and had not yet learned to hate all Apaches.

He fed these women, treated them kindly, and sent them off with a promise of similar treatment for others of their band if they would come to Camp Grant in peace. Word spread and other Apaches from Aravaipa and Pinal bands soon came to the post seeking rations of beef and flour. Among them was a young Apache war chief named Eskiminzin who told Lt. Whitman that he and his small band were tired of war and wanted to settle on nearby Aravaipa Creek.

In return for rations of beef and flour, Chief Eskiminzin and his Apaches turned over their weapons to Lt. Whitman and promised to stop raiding. Whitman accepted their promise and, in addition to rations, offered them pay for field work.

Chief Eskiminzin

As more Apache arrived, Whitman created a refuge or “rancheria” along Aravaipa Creek about a half mile east of Camp Grant, and wrote to his superior for instructions. Due to a bureaucratic mix-up, no reply was forthcoming.

By early March there were 300 Aravaipa and Pinal Apaches camped near Camp Grant, and by the end of March there were 500. During March the flow of Aravaipa Creek declined and Lt. Whitman authorized the Arivaipa and Penal Apaches to move five miles upstream from Camp Grant, to the mouth of Aravaipa canyon, which today is a beautiful Nature Preserve.

Fear And Anger In Tucson

Seventy miles south in the small, dusty, predominantly Mexican town of Tucson, there was considerable animosity toward the soldiers stationed at Camp Grant. The citizens of Tucson felt surrounded by a vast desert controlled by Apaches who continued to raid and murder despite the growing presence of the Army.

On the one hand, Tucsonans had negative feelings toward the Camp Grant soldiers.  They blamed the Army for not keeping American citizens safe. Truth-be-told, most Anglo and Mexican residents of Southern Arizona, and their influential newspapers, were at this time demanding that the Army simply exterminate all Apaches, rather than feed and clothe them.

Moreover, the San Pedro River overland freight route guarded by the soldiers at Camp Grant was taking business from the valuable overland route that went through Tucson.

On the other hand, many Tucson businessmen were profiting handsomely from the experimental Apache “feeding stations” operated by the Camp Grant soldiers. They were also profiting by providing substantial supplies, including a lot of beef, for the maintenance of the soldiers there and other garrisons around Southern Arizona. Yet, if the Army was successful in teaching the Apaches to be self-sufficient farmers, the military posts all around Arizona would be disbanded and this lucrative trade would dry up.

In early 1871, as the population of peaceful Penal and Araviapa Apaches continued to grow near Camp Grant, other Apaches, most notably the Chiricahuas, continued to raid and slaughter Anglo and Mexican settlers throughout Southern Arizona. The good citizens of Tucson considered these raids and atrocities related to the Camp Grant experiment. Everyone in town was either angry, afraid, or both. Bellicose meetings were held to determine a course of action. Later, no one would accuse the good citizens of Tucson of being indecisive.

 The Mob

On the morning of April 28, 1871, an excited mob of 6 Anglos and 48 Mexicans left Tucson for Camp Grant, along with 94 Papago Indians. The Papago had easily been recruited from their reservation just south of town. They were traditional enemies of the Pinal and Aravaipa Apache with whom they had a long history of war. Like all the settled residents of Southern Arizona, the Papago hated and feared the Apaches.

William Oury: a prominent Tucsonan and a mob leader.

Tucson’s most prominent citizens were involved: Sam Hughes, William Oury, Juan Elias, Hiram Stevens, William Zeckendorf, and Tucson’s first elected mayor, Sidney DeLong.

When Lt. Whitman learned about the mob headed for Camp Grant, he immediately sent a warning to the Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches. It arrived too late.

At dawn on April 30, 1871, the Tucson mob mounted a surprise attack on the Penal and Aravaipa camps. A day or two earlier, the Apache men had left their women and children in camp and were up in the mountains hunting.

The Papago were in the forefront of the attack, clubbing, stabbing, and slashing their nearly helpless victims to death. Most of the Anglos and Mexicans stayed back and shot any of the Apache women and children trying to escape from the slaughter.

Chief Eskiminzin was present, but was one of the few to escape. The Papago captured about 27 of the youngest Apache children and took them to sell as slaves in Mexico. Once the fighting was over, the Papago mutilated and scalped their victims.

Whitman sent a medical team to render assistance, but they found no survivors. He had his soldiers bury the dead.

Aftermath

Following the Camp Grant Massacre, the Apaches learned once again that the Americans could not be trusted.

Camp Grant defendants pose in front of courthouse where they were acquitted.

In the East, where American citizens were no longer threatened by Indians, the reaction was outrage. Eastern newspapers demanded justice. President Grant threatened to place Arizona Territory under martial law if the the participants were not brought to trail.

In October, 1871, a grand jury indicted about 100 individuals thought to have participated in the massacre. The very public trial lasted 5 days. The attorneys for the defense focused their arguments exclusively on the history of Apache raids, murders, and depredations. No Apaches were invited to testify. The jury deliberated for 19 minutes and declared all defendants not guilty. What was a massacre in the East was justifiable homicide in Tucson.

That year, the new commanding officer in the Arizona Territory, Lt. Col. George Crook, undertook a survey of military posts and potential reservations sites. Crook had Camp Grant closed and ordered that a new Fort Grant built at the western base of Mount Graham.

Lt. Col. George Crook about 1871.

The new location in present-day Graham County was better located to subdue the remaining hostiles. In March 1873, Camp Grant at the junction of the San Pedro and Aravaipa Rivers was abandoned. Today, it’s the site of Central Arizona College. The new Fort Grant is no longer a military fort, but a location for state prisons.

Immediately following the massacre, a reservation was set aside for the Apaches at Camp Grant. But the following year all Apache reservations were consolidated and moved north to the intersection of the San Carlos and the Gila Rivers.

In the years following the massacre, relatives of the enslaved Apache children repeatedly petitioned the U.S. government to help repatriate their kidnapped children. Only 7 or 8 ever returned to their people.

Chief Eskiminzin later wrote,”When I made peace with Lt. Whitman, my heart was very big and happy. The people of Tucson and San Xavier must be crazy. They acted as though they had neither heads nor hearts … they must have a thirst for our blood. These Tucson people write for the papers and tell their own story. The Apache have no one to tell their story.”

Today, the massacre site, about five miles upstream from the abandoned site of Camp Grant on Aravaipa Creek, is unmarked.

Lt-Rt: Jeff, Martha, Charley, Ola Mae, Tom & John

Klondyke is a near-ghost town in western Graham County. In the second decade of the 21^st century, the only roads out there are still unpaved.

The Klondyke cemetery is just southeast of town. There you will find the graves of the Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” Power and his family. Few know the sad story of these Arizona pioneers.

Searching for land to raise his cattle, “Jeff” Power brought his family to west Graham County from Texas in 1909.  Power’s family included his wife, Martha Jane, a daughter, Ola May, and three sons, Charley, the oldest, and John and Tom Jr.

The ranch was still struggling when, in 1915, Martha Jane was killed in a buggy accident.

A year later, Power took his children to live near a mine he was working in Rattlesnake Canyon several miles into the Galiuro Mountains from the present town of Klondyke. Here, in 1917, 23-year-old Ola May was bit by a rattler and died. At least that was what her family told authorities. The coroner wrote that Ola May died from “causes unknown”.

About that same time, Charley was wounded in The Great War. Consequently, the old man decided that his remaining two sons, now in their mid-twenties, would not become cannon fodder defending someone else’s country. He refused to let his two younger boys leave home when they were called to military service. It was a fateful decision that would destroy the remainder of his family.

Jeff Power’s cabin prior to being restored by the Forest Service.

The young men were declared deserters. Power must have believed that they were so remote that the law wouldn’t bother them. He was wrong. Dead wrong!

On February 10, 1918, four Graham County lawmen came to arrest the brothers. They also carried arrest warrants for “Jeff” Power and his hired hand, Tom Sisson, both of whom were “wanted for questioning” regarding Ola May’s death.

No one today can say for certain who fired the first shot. But what is certain is when the shooting ended, three lawmen were dead and “Jeff” Power lay dying.

Brothers John & Tom Jr. were wounded, but they and Tom Sisson escaped to Mexico. A few weeks later all three were captured, quickly tried, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life in prison. They were sent to prison in Florence, Arizona.

His family members dead or in prison, brother Charley soon left the area.

Many year later, Tom Sisson died in a Florence prison at age 86. Brothers John & Tom Jr. were paroled in 1960 after 42 years in a Florence hellhole. Tom died in 1970 in a little town about 50 miles from Klondyke.

In the mid-1970’s, John Power moved the bones of his father and brother to Klondyke cemetery and placed them beside the graves of his mother and sister. On his father grave he wrote: “T. J. Power Sr. 1918 – Age 54. Shot down with his hands up in his own door.” Ya’ think he was a just a little resentful?

Nine years after they were released from prison, the Arizona Governor pardoned the two younger Power brothers. In 1975, the Power’s cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has since been restored by the U.S. Forest Service. Visitors can hike in and reflect.

John Power died in 1976, and is buried beside his family in the Klondyke cemetery.

To read other local histories on SouthernArizonaGuide.com, click HERE.

Tucson Museum of Art’s Holiday Artisans Market

Annual Holiday Artisans Market
The Annual Holiday Artisans Market will have more than 140 of the best Southwest artisans offering their unique creations for sale. I’m going because this annual event has proven most useful for acquiring original holiday gifts. Moreover, it saves me from having to go to a mall where I would certainly be assaulted with insipid Christmas music, long lines, and pushy crowds.

Current Exhibits
This event also interests me because it gives me an opportunity to see the Museum’s latest exhibits, Barbara Rogers: Imperative of Beauty, a fifty-five year retrospective; and Henri Matisse: The Pasiphae’ Series. There are also two other exhibits of which I know nothing. The Shape of Things: Four Decades of Paintings & Sculpture and Art + The Machine. I expect to be impressed & enlightened.

There will be food trucks, although I don’t yet know which ones, and a beer garden sponsored by 1702, Nimbus Brewing Company, & Dragoon Brewing Company. On my SouthernArizonaGuide.com website, I have reviewed all of the Southern Arizona breweries that I am aware of, except Bisbee Brewing Company. You can read my local brewery reviews by clicking HERE. I am particularly partial to Nimbus’ Old Monkeyshine.

Admission to the Holiday Artisans Market is FREE, as is admission to the Museum on these days.

El Nacimiento at Tucson Museum of Art

El Nacimiento
In addition, the Museum also celebrates the opening of El Nacimiento on Saturday, November 17th at 1:30 PM. This is Tucson’s most impressive nativity, the creation of Maria Luisa Tena who in this way has honored her mother for over 30 years. El Nacimeinto contains about 800 figurines depicting various Bible stories.

J. Knox Corbett House

Corbett House
The following Friday & Saturday, November 23rd & 24th, the Museum’s historic Corbett House will be decorated in its holiday finest and open to the public. There will be two daily tours on Friday & Saturday at noon & 1 PM. Only one tour at 1 PM on Sunday, November 25th.

At the turn of the last century, the home of J. Knox Corbett was among the prominent mansions along what was then referred to as Snob Hollow. Southern Arizona Guide has a short video of the interior, sans holiday trimmings. Click HERE to watch it.

Admission to this mission-revival treasure is included with Museum admission.

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What? Guided tour about the history and accomplishments of Fort Huchuca Buffalo Soldiers conducted by the Southwest Association of Buffalo Soldiers.
Where? Fort Huachuca at Sierra Vista
When? November 17th between 1 and 3 PM
More Info: 520-417-6960 or 800-288-3861

After the Civil War, the U.S. Army formed regiments of Negro men, most of whom were former slaves, and many of whom had served in the United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.). The cavalry units were the 9th and 10th Cavalry, and the infantry were the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st which several years later were consolidated into the 24th and 25th infantry units. Black infantry troops often fought side-by-side with the black cavalry.

These African-American soldiers were called “buffalo soldiers” by the Plains Indians. No one today is quite certain why.  Some say it was because the men were as rugged as buffalo and others say that it was because the Indians saw a resemblance between the Black soldier’s hair and the buffalo’s shaggy coat. It has also been pointed out that many Black soldiers favored long buffalo-robe coats. Although the name was primarily applied to the cavalry, it was sometimes extended to include the Black infantry.

After the Civil War, Blacks faced horrific discrimination. Some men enlisted to escape hopeless poverty and gain a certain respect, even though they were segregated from White troops. The Buffalo Soldiers fought in the Plains Indian Wars, the Apache Wars, the Spanish-American War, and The Punitive Mission against Mexico ordered by President Wilson and led by General John Pershing. Pershing had earned his nickname, ‘Black Jack,’ by leading Black regiments early in his career.

By all accounts, these Black regiments distinguished themselves in service to their country, despite being given inferior horses and equipment.

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What? 30th Annual Bisbee Historic Home Tour.
Visitors will see the miner’s shacks and other buildings that have been restored and decorated with Bisbee residents’ unique style. Ten homes, Saint Patrick’s Church and the Bisbee Woman’s Club building are featured on the tour.

Bisbee Festival of Lights
Also, Bisbee kicks off the holidays with its Festival of Lights all day Friday, Nov. 23 at City Park in historic Brewery Gulch. Live music, dancers, food, a craft fair, during the day, and the lighting ceremony that evening. Kids’ activities include an ornament-making class from 10 a.m. to noon and a decorating party from noon to 2 p.m. On Saturday, Nov. 24. Main Street will feature a “Small Town Holiday” with free horse-drawn wagon rides, carolers, window decorating contest, raffles and shopping until 8 p.m.
Where? Old Bisbee
When? November 23rd & 24th 9 AM to 4 PM
Cost? $15 for adults, children 12 and under FREE.
More Info: Bisbee Visitor Center at 520-432-3554 or 1-866-224-7233, www.DiscoverBisbee.com

Other Featured Homes

• “The Doll House,” a 1916 miner’s shack that and has been lovingly redone by the present owner. It’s a cozy 638-square-foot home with an eclectic combination of vintage shabby chic and Bisbee flair.
• A Mission-style bungalow built in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution and World War I. It features original woodwork and leaded glass in its inner entry door.
• A home built in the early 1900s as a miner’s shack. Much of the structure is made from mine timbers and 2” x 12” mine platform boards.

For our Bisbee Dining Recommendations, click HERE. Bisbee has several very good restaurants, including Santiago’s Mexican; Rose’s Little Italy, Hazel’s Table 10, and Cafe’ Roka.

For our Lodging Recommendations, click HERE. We particularly like Joy Timber’s Calumet & Arizona Guesthouse B&B in the Warren District, and the Eldorado Suites Hotel on OK Street overlooking Brewery Gulch in Old Bisbee.

What?

Starting at 10 AM, you will also be able to witness a vintage baseball game between the Bisbee Black Sox and Tucson Saguaros. Then around 2 PM, the 4th Cavalry Regimental Band will perform.

And of course you can visit the fine exhibits in the two restored Officers Quarters. One building features the U.S. Army soldiers who were stationed here to fight the hostiles. The other building houses the “hostiles” exhibits.

Where? Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Rd., Tucson, AZ 85712

When? November 3rd; 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cost? Free. Bring a chair or blanket to sit on.

More Info: Contact AHS Curatorial Aide Bette Richards at betterichs@live.com or 520-885-3832. Bette starred in 2 of our AHS videos. To see them, click HERE.

Hope to see you there.