Ghost Towns: Ruby, Arizona

In the early 1850s, American prospectors found the ruins of old Mexican mining camps in what became the Oro Blanco (“white gold”) Mining District in southernmost central Arizona. In the early years, Apache attacks were frequent and deadly, continuing until Geronimo’s surrender in 1886. The Montana, the district’s longest active and most profitable mine, opened …

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