Camp Rucker, Arizona

Unlike most ghost towns, which grew out of mining, lumbering or agricultural ventures, Camp Rucker was a remote Arizona Territory cavalry post that became a ranching hub. In 1872 the government set aside the southeastern corner of the territory as the Chiricahua Indian Reservation. Four years later it closed the reservation and relocated the Chiricahuas …

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