Cowboys & Indians & Miners
Cowboys & Indians & Miners
Leaving Show Low, Arizona after visiting the Historic Center, 2 mayors were selected by drawing cards, A correction, it’s Aunt Nancy not Aunt Maddy's's.
Take SR 60/ 77 W, turn left on SrR 73 to Fort Apache.
Fort Apache or Tl’onk’a’gai: Place of White Reeds.
This beautiful land at the confluence of the North and East forks of the White River has been favored settlement site foe thousands of years. Ndee- White Mountain Apache people- lived and farmed peacefully here for many generations before the U.S. Army in 1870 to establish Fort Apache. Today the Ndee have reclaimed Fort Apache as a place to remember, reconcile and celebrate Apache culture and history.
This is the best reservation I have seen, homes, businesses, and schools. As well as the community, looks to me as a healthy and a respected place.
The White Mountain Apache have a clan system, thee are 62 clans today, 27 active clans, names Butterfly, Roadrunner, Eagle and Bear. They belong to the Mothers clan, as true in Ancient Native cultures.
Welcome!
Ha’an (Apache)
Huvam Yeesee! (Hopi)
Kishi! ( Zuni)
Also on the reservation are the Kinishba Ruins
Kinishba:Kih Dalhbaa- “Brown House” (Apache)
Mai’Povi- “Place of Snake Weed” (Hopi)
Hesho da so Sona- “Brown House of Ancestors” (Zuni)
Kinishhba Ruins is the remains of a village built and occupied by ancestors of today’s Zuni and Hopi Pueblo tribes. Near by pit houses, indicate settlement here an early as 800AD. Pottery, especially Hopi Yellow Wares and Zuni Glaze Wares, suggest occupation by Pueblo people into the 1400’s.
Around AD 1325, when Kinishba reached, its maximum size of about 600 ground floor rooms (400-800 occupants).
There is no clear evidence of ancient Apache occupation at Kinishba, but oral traditions indicate Apache history in the region extending into immortal, Apache, Hopis, Zunis, and non-Indians’ work together as Kinishba’s stewards.
One poem stands out to me:
Isaa’ the DrumThe round can is the earth.
The buckskin covers on the drum
Is the fanned deer hide.
The water inside the drum is our blood.
The beads inside the drum
Are our beads, male & female.
The rope tied around the drum is veins.
The drum sticks our bones.
The Earth drum-female
The Sky drum-male
I leave with thunderstorm overhead. Not knowing the weather here, I am not sure of rain.
I head north on SR 73, stopped at Hon Dah casino, something a rarely do. It’s been an odd day, thought I would my luck. $10 came and went!
So far I spent $10 in Atlantic City Casino, $10 in Winnemucca, Nevada, and now $10 here. Bye-bye to 2 sawbucks.
Turn Right on SR 260 E, aspen and pine forest, lots of lakes, if I were stay on this highway to New Mexico I would go through Pie Town, located on top of the Continental Divide.
Onward, pass Nutrioso, there a lodge, Tal-Wi-Wi Lodge and restaurant as well as a rustic saloon, rooms have private hot tubs and wood stoves, the last weekend of July is a BBQ and dance. Stopped too eat dinner at Bear Wallow Café, home style food with a big selection of pies, fruit, pumpkin and pecan, great not to sweet. I eat chicken fried chicken and cream gravy, lumpy mashed potatoes and string beans from the can, doctored up with bacon, not bad.
As well as other eateries and topped of by a great local rag called the “Mogollon Gazette”, who’s what’s going on around this part of the woods.
Out of Alpine, looking to camp or sleep somewhere, not much open, don’t really or had not wanted to drive to Silver City, my next stop of interest.
Into New Mexico, I New Mexico, I lost an hour, Arizona doesn’t do Day Light Savings.
Down SR 180 S at night, in the San Francisco Mountains, hoping for a room in Glenwood, only the bar the Bluefoot Café & Bar were open, nothin’ more.
Windy roads at night into the mountains be careful.
Herd of elk, both sides of the road, I see, I stop, I wait, bye bye elk, as they go into the darkness, they are looking for water, dry year here.
Pass Buckhorn, Silver City in the distance. In old town nothing, then to a cheap motel.
67.9 mpg/ 284.4 miles traveled
Going down is good/too many miles, again!
May 19th, gone 23 days.
Silver City, lots of small shops, art galleries, and this town has a good feel, with some embedded poverty. Local Rag “Desert Exposure”, the biggest little paper in the SW, there is an article about NM’s minimum wage, $5.50 per hour, even Dems voted against it in this state.
Blues Festival May 26-28th, I am a week too early.
Walked around abit, the Ballard Street area is cool & funky, Good coffee shops, restaurants and a food co-op.
This town was built on Cooper Mining, lumber, cattle and agriculture, and a diverse population of old Spanish, Native Peoples, New Mexican and Anglos.
Local Hot Stops:
Silver City Grill, were the characters are better than the food. Next store is Daines, were you won’t go wrong and Shevek Mi for lunch or dinner, a good place to purchase wine or micro brews. There is a food co-op 30 yrs. Running and the Java Hut for coffee.
Down the corner on the corner of Rejuvenation coffee, next to the Buffalo Bar, local watering hole, drank, smoke, shoot pool, start early.
There is the Silver City Brewpub, too.
And in Pinus Alto is the Buckhorn Saloon, great food and bar, with music, as well as an Old Opera House next store doing “Billy the Kid”.
Silver City is growing, people coming from elsewhere, this is happening all over the West. Property values are up. “There is no way for me to locate to Silver City without helping to kill the thing I love”. Quote from Spenser Havlick.
Next “Riding the Spine of the Gila”
Leaving Show Low, Arizona after visiting the Historic Center, 2 mayors were selected by drawing cards, A correction, it’s Aunt Nancy not Aunt Maddy's's.
Take SR 60/ 77 W, turn left on SrR 73 to Fort Apache.
Fort Apache or Tl’onk’a’gai: Place of White Reeds.
This beautiful land at the confluence of the North and East forks of the White River has been favored settlement site foe thousands of years. Ndee- White Mountain Apache people- lived and farmed peacefully here for many generations before the U.S. Army in 1870 to establish Fort Apache. Today the Ndee have reclaimed Fort Apache as a place to remember, reconcile and celebrate Apache culture and history.
This is the best reservation I have seen, homes, businesses, and schools. As well as the community, looks to me as a healthy and a respected place.
The White Mountain Apache have a clan system, thee are 62 clans today, 27 active clans, names Butterfly, Roadrunner, Eagle and Bear. They belong to the Mothers clan, as true in Ancient Native cultures.
Welcome!
Ha’an (Apache)
Huvam Yeesee! (Hopi)
Kishi! ( Zuni)
Also on the reservation are the Kinishba Ruins
Kinishba:Kih Dalhbaa- “Brown House” (Apache)
Mai’Povi- “Place of Snake Weed” (Hopi)
Hesho da so Sona- “Brown House of Ancestors” (Zuni)
Kinishhba Ruins is the remains of a village built and occupied by ancestors of today’s Zuni and Hopi Pueblo tribes. Near by pit houses, indicate settlement here an early as 800AD. Pottery, especially Hopi Yellow Wares and Zuni Glaze Wares, suggest occupation by Pueblo people into the 1400’s.
Around AD 1325, when Kinishba reached, its maximum size of about 600 ground floor rooms (400-800 occupants).
There is no clear evidence of ancient Apache occupation at Kinishba, but oral traditions indicate Apache history in the region extending into immortal, Apache, Hopis, Zunis, and non-Indians’ work together as Kinishba’s stewards.
One poem stands out to me:
Isaa’ the DrumThe round can is the earth.
The buckskin covers on the drum
Is the fanned deer hide.
The water inside the drum is our blood.
The beads inside the drum
Are our beads, male & female.
The rope tied around the drum is veins.
The drum sticks our bones.
The Earth drum-female
The Sky drum-male
I leave with thunderstorm overhead. Not knowing the weather here, I am not sure of rain.
I head north on SR 73, stopped at Hon Dah casino, something a rarely do. It’s been an odd day, thought I would my luck. $10 came and went!
So far I spent $10 in Atlantic City Casino, $10 in Winnemucca, Nevada, and now $10 here. Bye-bye to 2 sawbucks.
Turn Right on SR 260 E, aspen and pine forest, lots of lakes, if I were stay on this highway to New Mexico I would go through Pie Town, located on top of the Continental Divide.
Onward, pass Nutrioso, there a lodge, Tal-Wi-Wi Lodge and restaurant as well as a rustic saloon, rooms have private hot tubs and wood stoves, the last weekend of July is a BBQ and dance. Stopped too eat dinner at Bear Wallow Café, home style food with a big selection of pies, fruit, pumpkin and pecan, great not to sweet. I eat chicken fried chicken and cream gravy, lumpy mashed potatoes and string beans from the can, doctored up with bacon, not bad.
As well as other eateries and topped of by a great local rag called the “Mogollon Gazette”, who’s what’s going on around this part of the woods.
Out of Alpine, looking to camp or sleep somewhere, not much open, don’t really or had not wanted to drive to Silver City, my next stop of interest.
Into New Mexico, I New Mexico, I lost an hour, Arizona doesn’t do Day Light Savings.
Down SR 180 S at night, in the San Francisco Mountains, hoping for a room in Glenwood, only the bar the Bluefoot Café & Bar were open, nothin’ more.
Windy roads at night into the mountains be careful.
Herd of elk, both sides of the road, I see, I stop, I wait, bye bye elk, as they go into the darkness, they are looking for water, dry year here.
Pass Buckhorn, Silver City in the distance. In old town nothing, then to a cheap motel.
67.9 mpg/ 284.4 miles traveled
Going down is good/too many miles, again!
May 19th, gone 23 days.
Silver City, lots of small shops, art galleries, and this town has a good feel, with some embedded poverty. Local Rag “Desert Exposure”, the biggest little paper in the SW, there is an article about NM’s minimum wage, $5.50 per hour, even Dems voted against it in this state.
Blues Festival May 26-28th, I am a week too early.
Walked around abit, the Ballard Street area is cool & funky, Good coffee shops, restaurants and a food co-op.
This town was built on Cooper Mining, lumber, cattle and agriculture, and a diverse population of old Spanish, Native Peoples, New Mexican and Anglos.
Local Hot Stops:
Silver City Grill, were the characters are better than the food. Next store is Daines, were you won’t go wrong and Shevek Mi for lunch or dinner, a good place to purchase wine or micro brews. There is a food co-op 30 yrs. Running and the Java Hut for coffee.
Down the corner on the corner of Rejuvenation coffee, next to the Buffalo Bar, local watering hole, drank, smoke, shoot pool, start early.
There is the Silver City Brewpub, too.
And in Pinus Alto is the Buckhorn Saloon, great food and bar, with music, as well as an Old Opera House next store doing “Billy the Kid”.
Silver City is growing, people coming from elsewhere, this is happening all over the West. Property values are up. “There is no way for me to locate to Silver City without helping to kill the thing I love”. Quote from Spenser Havlick.
Next “Riding the Spine of the Gila”
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