Organ Pipe Cactus – Bates Well Ranch The Bates Well Ranch , also known as the Bates Well, Growler Well, Gray Ranch and El Veit, was one of the fifteen ranches and line camps in the Gray family cattle business in the Sonoran Desert country north of the US-Mexico border
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Fairbank Ghost Town Fairbank is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River. First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone, which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona. The town was named for Chicago investor
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Loren Pratts Little Chapel Loren Pratts Little Chapel sits on the edge of a field outside of Yuma Arizona. The tiny building is 8 x 12 feet with 6 pew on the inside. Loren Pratt built it at the edges of his cotton fields in horror of
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Monument Valley Photography Workshop September 18-22, 2022 This workshop will give you the opportunity to photograph some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet at the peak time of year, and in a way very few people ever get to experience and with expert instruction for any level of
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Tumacacori National Historical Park The main feature of the park is the remarkably well-preserved Mission San José de Tumacácori, which was built in the 1750s to replace the much older Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori — the first mission in southern Arizona. The park gives you the opportunity to take
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Ruby Ghost Town Ruby is a ghost town in Arizona, founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak. Mining started circa 1877. The Montana Mine produced gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper.
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Saguaro National Park Tucson, Arizona is home to the nation’s largest cacti. The giant saguaro is the universal symbol of the American west. These majestic plants, found only in a small portion of the United States, are protected by Saguaro National Park, to the east and west of the
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Painted Desert June 2021 Free Wallpaper Image is 1920 x 1080 pixles Free Wallpaper Image I will be offering one of my images as a free desktop wallpaper for your computer each month. I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed the opportunity to travel our
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Saguaro Cactus Saguaro Cactus at sunset in the Saguaro National Park Tucson Arizona. The saguaro is a columnar cactus that grows notable branches, usually referred to as arms. As many as 49 arms may grow on one plant. Saguaros grow from 10–52 ft tall, and up to 30 in in
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Meteor Crater Fifty thousand year ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky. It struck the Earth in what is now northern Arizona, exploding with the force of 2 1/2 million tons of TNT, or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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