arizona guide right foundation Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/arizona-guide-right-foundation Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Arizona Guide http://toursmaps.com/arizona-guide.html http://toursmaps.com/arizona-guide.html#respond Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:41:59 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203570 Gila City became Arizona’s first boomtown in 1858, but by the mid-1860s, it was already a ghost town. Jacob Snively discovered gold there in 1857, and in less than a year, more than 1,000 independent Anglo and ethnic Mexican prospectors were earning $50 a day from veins in the area. Just a few years later, in 1862, an even bigger placer strike gave rise to the town of Yuma. Many of the Sonoran miners who first settled Yuma during the 1860s were returnees from California’s gold fields. After hearing of the California gold rush, more than 10,000 Sonorans passed through

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