The Great American History Blog

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles A. Mills is an author and historian with a passion for uncovering hidden stories from the pa...

 Apache Tears Apache tears  are rounded pebbles of obsidian found in Arizona.   The name "Apache tear" comes from a legend of the ...

  Sorting out fact from fiction is the great challenge for anyone interested in searching for the Lost Dutchman’s Mine. There was a Jacob ...

  For over fifty years after the death of Jacob Waltz, treasure hunters followed the ambiguous clues that the Dutchman left behind as to the...

  Over six hundred people have lost their lives in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, some under very mysterious circumstances.   In 189...

  On December 23, 1835, one hundred and ten men under the command of Major Francis Dade left Fort Brooke (present-day Tampa), to reinforce...

      The most famous American witch trials occurred in Salem Massachusetts from 1692-1693, but Virginia had its own witches and witch trial...

  Tombstone owed its creation to the discovery of silver.   The mines sat in the richest productive silver district in Arizona.   The popula...

  Two Guns, Arizona is a ghost town located on the Canyon Diablo gorge near Flagstaff, Arizona.  The town was originally known as Canyon Lod...

  Throughout the early 19th century various proposals were made to use camels imported from the Middle East to transport supplies in the des...

  In 1855 the U.S. government approved an experimental plan to use camels imported from the Middle East for transporting supplies and equipm...

  Between 1905 and 1915 a bandit nicknamed “Hacksaw Tom” supposedly carried out a series of robberies on wagons and stagecoaches along Arizo...