A place that almost slid, literally, into history.
By gowestusa Staff
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]
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Tons of bones lie buried at the base of the cliff.
By gowestusa Staff
One of America’s most spectacular buffalo jumps is in the wild rugged limestone bluffs along Montana’s Madison River.
To the untrained eye, this massive semicircular cliff seems just a part of the Big Sky landscape. But for nearly 2000 years (and as recently as 200 years ago) herds of buffalo thundered over this cliff, lured to their death by the Indians who gathered here.
Tons of bones still lie buried at the cliff’s base and arch...[continued]
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