The town of Jerome is precariously perched high on the slopes of Cleopatra Hill in northern Arizona. Jerome developed from a tent camp in the 1880s, to a town of 15,000 during World War I, to just 50 hardy souls in 1953, and today is a tourist destination complete with art galleries, restaurants, restored homes and three mining museums.
Although individual prospectors riddled the slopes of the 5000-foot mountain with claims, two high rol...[continued]