Arizona gold prospectors built the AAGP, the premier Arizona recreational GOLD prospecting club. It's the only one in the world with access to a year-round commercial placer GOLD mining operation!
California was not the only state that experienced gold fever in the mid and late 1800's. In Arizona near the town of Wickenburg, gold was discovered in 1863 and a gold rush ensued. However, by the late 1800's gold mining was not limited to prospectors manually mining with pans and ...
their country overrun by hunters who kill their game, and not unfrequently kill the Indians -- gold prospectors and others, none of whom locate in this section of country..." The Camp Verde Military Reservation is marked by two red boxes at the southern end of Arizona Map 2, Area 582....
Following the discovery of gold in California in 1849, the Gila Trail, as the route established along the Gila River by Kearny had come to be known, became a major thoroughfare for would-be gold miners on their way to California. The Piman ...
In the beginning, these were primarily miners and prospectors seeking their fortunes. When the railroad began to reach this part of the West, Lewis Kingman surveyed the route between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Needles, California, in 1880. When it arrived, the new railroad closely paralleled ...
Arizona's minerals, valued even by prehistoric miners, attracted most of the early explorers, and although the area remained a relatively obscure section of the Territory of New Mexico, mining continued sporadically. Small numbers of prospectors, crossing Arizona to join the California gold rush (...