Chapter Nine

On Saturday February 26th we left around 10:00am in the tracker for the Superstition Mountain area and the Lost Dutchman Mine, about 1 1/2 hours away.  In the 1880's the Lost Dutchman (who wasn't even Dutch) found a bunch of gold and prospectors have been searching the area for over a century, where it is rumored a fortune in gold still exists within these mountains.  From 1893 to 1897 the gold strikes sparked the Goldfield Mining District and a town soon came together and flourished at the base of the Superstition Mountains, not far from the original strike, until it flooded because they drilled down to the river. Today, you can enjoy all of the flavor of the authentic mining town, with shoot outs, mine tours, saloon, blacksmith, shops, and a train ride around the town complete with the engineer telling the history of the town and area.  We enjoyed a late lunch in the saloon, finished all the tours and looking around, and were back home around 6:30 to watch a little T.V. and play cards, I actually beat Larry at Spite & Malice for the first time!