Apache Trail.

[tapoutking]

Reading a book on Arizona and New Mexico from the 1800's (more like a diary) and it contains some very detail information about the whereabouts of Apache villages, gold mines etc in the area. Anyone familiar with the area?

[TucsonHiker]

What is the name of the book? Sounds interesting.

[tapoutking]

Adventures in Arizona & New Mexico by Samuel Woodwirth Cozzens.

Alot of GREAT info on Arizona and New Mexico including gold and silver mining and the areas in which the Indians were taking gold. I have the Hard Back version and it has a small map of his routes. Wish it were bigger though.

[Skywola]

Sometimes, if you have a very small map or photo, if you scan it with a scanner, then blow it up in Photoshop,
you can find things that do not show up normally.

[tapoutking]

Im going to try that, although a loop will probably work fine with the map.

[Skywola]

I live in Mesa, Arizona . . . . Have spent time in the Bradshaws and Superstition Mountain area, some in Payson area.
I do not have a great vehicle for two tracking though . . . what I got made it across the Bradshaws only due to the madness of the driver!

[Gork]

Reading a book on Arizona and New Mexico from the 1800's (more like a diary) and it contains some very detail information about the whereabouts of Apache villages, gold mines etc in the area. Anyone familiar with the area?

If you would like two other good books about Apache Indians in Arizona I would suggest the following:
Life Among the Apaches by John C. Cremony and Adventures in the Apache Country by John Ross Browne.
I particularly like Cremony's book as he was the translator for the Bartlett surveying team during the Gadsden Purchase in the early 1850s. He also guided prospectors along what was to later become the Butterfield Trail in Arizona. He has a great description of his fight with Apache Indians near what is now Texas Hill, Arizona. In 1862 he was back in Arizona serving with the California Column.