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are usually required only for received that “all you’ll find out
visitors traveling beyond town there is your tombstone.”
limits. US citizens should carry Instead, the silver he found led to
a passport or birth certificate a silver rush. Today, Tombstone
for identification, while foreign is a living legend, famous as the
nationals should carry their site of the 1881 gunfight at OK
passport and make sure that Corral between the Earp
their visa status enables them brothers and the Clanton gang.
to re-enter the US. The OK Corral is now a museum,
where the infamous gunfight is
re-enacted. The old seat of
j Bisbee justice, Tombstone Courthouse,
is a historic site.
* 5,300. @ n 478 Dart Road, (520)
432-3554. ∑ discoverbisbee.com
k Amerind
Statue of Virgin Mary at the San Xavier del The discovery of copper here
Bac Mission, Tucson in the 1880s sparked a mining Foundation
rush, and by the turn of the
h Nogales century Bisbee was the largest Dragoon Road, off I-10 exit 318.
Tel (520) 586-3666. Open 10am–4pm
city between St. Louis and
* 20,400. @ n 123 W Kino Park, Tue–Sun. Closed Mon, public hols. &
(520) 287-3685. San Francisco. Today, this is ∑ amerind.org
∑ thenogaleschamber.com one of the Southwest’s most
atmospheric mining towns. The Amerind Foundation is
The birthplace of jazz star Victorian buildings such as the one of the country’s most
Charles Mingus, Nogales is really landmark Copper Queen Hotel important private
two towns that straddle the US still dominate the historic town archaeological and ethnological
border with Mexico. It is a busy center, while attractive clusters museums. The name Amerind
port of entry, handling huge of houses cling to the sides of is a contraction of “American
amounts of freight, including the surrounding mountains. Indian,” and this collection
much of the winter fruit and Visitors can tour the mines that depicts all aspects of Native
vegetables sold in North once flourished here. The American life through
America. The town attracts large Bisbee Mining and Historical thousands of artifacts of
numbers of visitors in search of Museum illustrates the realities different cultures. The displays
bargains at shopping districts of mining and frontier life. include Inuit masks, Cree tools,
on both sides of the and sculpted effigy figures
border. There is a Environs from Mexico’s Casas Grandes.
profound contrast Some 25 miles (40 km) The adjacent Amerind Art
between the quiet, north of Bisbee is Gallery has a fine collection of
ordered streets of the Tombstone, one of Western art by such artists as
US side, and the the wildest towns in William Leigh and Frederic
ramshackle houses the West. Founded by Remington. The delightful
and bustling, large- a prospector in 1877, pink buildings, designed in
scale street market Mexican pottery its name derives from the Spanish Colonial Revival
across the border. Visas from Nogales the warning he style, are also interesting.
Moorish-style dome Red-tiled roof White plaster

Iron grille work
Ornate
wooden
carvings
J. Knox Corbett House in Tucson was designed in the
20th-century Mission Revival style by the Chicago architect
David Holmes in 1906. It is characterized by white stucco
walls, flat roofs, courtyards, and minimal ornamentation.

San Xavier del Bac Mission is a fine example of the Baroque
tradition of Spanish Colonial churches. The style saw a resurgence
in the 20th century as Spanish Colonial Revival, with red-tiled
roofs, ornamental terra-cotta, iron grille work, and white walls.

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