The Wild Wild West!

 

What a beautiful morning here in Beaver Utah!  We woke up to 36 degrees and a hunters moon!

We have a day off from hauling the trailer, so Road Hog took Tully and I out on an adventure!  Jaime, this is how it is done!  Please pay attention!  😀

We took a drive out to the middle of nowhere.  To a place called Frisco.  What an awesome place!  Two of my favorite things here...One - the cemetery.  (I have always loved old cemeteries!). Two - an old ghost town!  Way out in the Wild Wild West!

This was the entrance to the cemetery.  Frisco used to be a mining town, mining for silver, way back in 1879.  142 years ago!!  

The cemetery was huge, and I am sure there were graves there that had become unmarked somehow.  The one thing we did notice was most of these graves were babies and small children.

Here is Charles K. Odell.  He was born Oct. 19th, 1841.  Wow!  He died Nov. 21st, 1898.  (I think if you click on the photo, it will be enlarged.)

This one is Henry Barrett.  He died in 1884, almost a year old!

Carrie Emma.  Born and died in 1891.  It looks as if her parents were German. 

Myrtle was only a couple of months old.

Boswell was born in the year of 1852, and passed away in 1879.  Almost all of these graves had money and other things put on their stones.  Some coins were really old.  One thing that I have never done and will never do is take something away from a cemetery or from a ghost town.  I think it brings bad juju to a person, so everything stays where it is put.  I take photos, and if I pick up something to look at it, I place it back exactly where I found it.  The last thing I need is some bad juju!

This grave site up in the above photo is pretty sad.  The same family....lost 4 babies at 4 different times.

Now these next places I will be showing you are ruins of buildings....I'm not sure if they were houses at one time or what.  During the silver rush, the town was popping with 6000 people.  It had one of the largest red light districts around!  There were at least one murder every day!  Frisco had 29 saloons, and drinking water had to be freighted in.  The town was finally abandoned in 1929.

Not only were there old buildings falling in disrepair, but there was a lot of old garbage laying around.  A lot of old bottles, and tin cans.

Most of the wooden buildings had already fallen down.  The wood was a dark dark brown from being baked in the sun.

This building looked like it was at one time tough to break in.  (or out?).  It had metal around the doors and windows, and the door was half the size of a regular door.  Maybe a jail?

If it was a jail, nice views!

Tully was waiting for me to finish with the picture taking!

This was some old mining equipment.

I believe this was an entrance to a mine.  It had collapsed, but you could see rail road tracks around this building.

Can you imagine the huge bees living in these bee hives?  These were actually the charcoal kilns that were used to get the silver out of the stone.  Can you imagine how hot these must have been when heating the stone?

Here is an old bottle.  The whole bottle was there but it was crushed.

Lots of tin cans.  I mean there were hundreds just laying out in the sun.

We are taking off in the morning!  We are on our way to Kaibab Paiute Tribal Campground in Arizona, just west of Fredonia.  We will be visiting the north rim of the Grand Canyon.  We will be there 19 days!!!