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Beautiful Dixie Canyon
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Beautiful Dixie Canyon near Bisbee, Arizona
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should
all be as happy as kings" -- Robert Louis Stevenson. Many of these photos are of Dixie Canyon, but most are
of other Arizona places I have hiked, mostly alone. Dixie Canyon is
not the prettiest of these places, but it is the one in which
my family owns 538 acres and which I hope to reforest and save
from developers. The government owns the choicest wilderness areas
in this country. Generally, all one has to do to enjoy these
areas is to drive a few hours and hike a few more. Most
people don't bother. Many times I have had a canyon thirty
miles long and two miles wide all to myself (and the wild
animals). It is a beautiful feeling.
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This photo is taken looking north/northeast. The photo foreground looks down from the head of Soto Canyon toward Dixie Canyon which is in the center of the photo running more or less East-West. The cut in the hill on the right is the road which runs down into Dixie Canyon. Our 538 acres, mostly Dixie Canyon, much of Soto Canyon and the mouth of Wildcat Canyon are in the center of the photo and behind the hills on the right, centered in the riparian areas at the bottom of the hills. The elevation is 5,000 to 6,100 feet. |
Dixie Canyon was named by a former Confederate Army
officer, to honor the land for which he fought. Robert E. Lee,
who had emancipated his slaves before the Civil War and who opposed
slavery, believed that, if individual states did not have the
right to secede, the Union would end in the tyranny of the Federal
Government, which has, of course, happened. Dixie Canyon
was part of the last lands added to the contiguous
48 states, the Gadsen Purchase. Dixie Canyon and its neighbors,
Soto and Wildcat canyons, were also part of the mountain
refuge for the last large group of Native Americans refusing
to live on reservations, the Southeastern Arizona
Apaches. As such, Dixie Canyon was one of the last
bastions of freedom in the United States. And it still is. In Dixie Canyon, I plan to run the Rebel
Flag to honor Robert E. Lee who, along with Dwight D.
Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, struggled to prevent the
present Orwellian State. And, in my heart, I
will honor the last free Native Americans who refused to be
herded into concentration camps. Dixie Canyon is a state
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