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Beautiful Dixie Canyon
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Photos from Beautiful Dixie Canyon near Bisbee
Arizona
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This photo was taken looking more or less west from Dixie Canyon toward the end of that canyon and toward the left turn at which Soto Canyon begins. At the left of the photo is the riparian area of Dixie Canyon, much of which is damaged by cattle presently, but I am working with the adjacent rancher to minimize this damage. The larger trees toward the center of the photo are oak and the taller few on the left are sycamore. Toward the left of the photo you can see the road cuts which cross the riparian area and wind up toward the head of Soto Canyon to exit Dixie Canyon. |
This photo is taken from toward the center of our property
looking south southwesterly up Soto Canyon. On the left is the
cut in the mountains you descend to enter the canyons. Most
people call this Dixie Canyon, but the head of Dixie Canyon
goes southwesterly in back of the photographer. This photo shows
more clearly the riparian growth on the left, sycamore and oak.
On both sides, the hills rise maybe 800 feet or more. |
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The remains of a rock wall pioneer home on a hill just inside our property's northwest border. Toward the right center of the structure, you can see one complete intact window opening. |
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This is the remains of an old ore car, laying outside an
abandoned mine along with scattered track, all too heavy to cart
off. The mine is full with water and is located in one of the
smaller canyons that intersects with Dixie Canyon, not far from my
property line. |
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Flowering cacti growing in rock crevices maybe 1/4 mile up Soto Canyon. On the left of the photo is standing water. Both Dixie Canyon and Soto Canyon have waterfalls during rains of a couple days or more. Wildcat Canyon (running south/southwesterly) commences at the same juncture where Dixie and Soto Canyons meet. Wildcat and Soto Canyon are most easily accessed from the juncture with Dixie Canyon. |
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A winter photo of my son Paul standing in front of the remains of a pioneer structure in the center of our property in Dixie Canyon, on the south side of the Dixie Canyon watershed. There are hundreds of feet of remains of old stone walls throughout the property. |
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My fleece jacket indicates it was cold. It is quite beautiful here in the early mornings. God created a beautiful world. |
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This is where I park the Suburban and sleep on the property. The little road in the foreground right runs down the hill and into the riparian area pictured in the first photo of this page. This view is towards the southeast and, in the photo background haze, you can see Mexico and the Sierre Madres, the last place the Free Apaches ran to escape the extermination squads. There, at Campo Apache, Geronimo "negotiated" a peace with the nascent National Security State. Of course, they lied, and Geronimo and his people spent the rest of their lives in concentration camps. I have hiked in to Campo Apache (through La Playa and La Vinataria) and the creepy mining ghost town about 1.5 miles beyond. |
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Campo Apache in Mexico's Sierre Madre, 1886 (l to r): Perico, Geronimo, Naiche (Cochise's son) and Tsishah. The Apaches had fled the reservation but suffered overwhelming casualties because they took with them their wives, children and elderly and thus lost superiority of maneuver. From their faces, you can see they knew they have been had. The final loss of freedom for the last Free Native Americans. The end of an era. |
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Click on the image left to read Geronimo's letter. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce wrote a more comprehensive statement of the Native American's loss, but Geronimo wrote the most poignant. It is short: |
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