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To: PJeffQ
the 6 months or so I was at Huachuca...

That whole Sierra Vista/Bisbee/Tombstone area is just amazing country. Dragoon mtns, Mule mountain from Sierra Vista to Bisbee and Cochise's hideout in the mountains I won't try to misspell. We've hiked all around there, hit the old bars and eaten some of the best Mexican food in the states.

Great quail hunting too. Were you in Intelligence at Huachuca?

One of my favorite stories from Bisbee is the time John Wayne and Lee Marvin were staying at the old Copper Queen hotel. Got way too drunk and had a pissing contest off the balcony of one of the suites.

There's another fine old hotel in Douglas with a big oak winding staircase that Zapata rode his horse up on one of their raids into US. You can still see some of the old bullet holes from that raid. Fascinating history as well as beauty in that area.

126 posted on 07/08/2002 12:57:54 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER
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To: BOBTHENAILER
We ate at the restaurant/bar in the old Stock Exchange building in Bisbee and rode by the pit in the ground at the mine... and walked around downtown Bisbee the afternoon/evening we were there...

We had an interesting trip via rental car through the Coronado Forest almost all the way down along the border to the Highway to Nogales one Sunday.

We took a rental Chevy Beretta places I'd never go in a personal car... we finally stopped and walked into one circa 1950s ghost town on a mountain when we saw a Range Rover on the way out scrape his oil pan and trail oil behind him...

127 posted on 07/08/2002 1:27:41 PM PDT by PJeffQ
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