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Published by: Neal Du Shane, Fort Collins, CO 80525

First Edition

Published in the United States of America

Cover: This is as Columbia, Arizona appeared in 2000. Photo was taken from the hill looking toward the north - northwest. Photo courtesy: Kevin Hart

All buildings were destroyed shortly there after by the BLM.

INTRODUCTION

Neal Du Shane has been researching ghost towns for 40 years. Living in Colorado has allowed him to vacation and explore in the mountains for 30 years. Neal spent the winter reading, researching and the summer physically locating these ghost towns and mining camps. In 2002 Neal retired and became an Arizona “Snow Bird.” Getting into the backcountry is in his blood and research started immediately in the Southern Bradshaw Mountains. Neal has compiled and written on Countess Minotto, “Arizona’s Time Honored Legend - Jack Swilling”, Shoot Out at Tussock Springs, Tip Top, Arizona, Humbug, Arizona, Swansea, Harrisburg and now Columbia, Arizona. In addition more than 90 pioneer cemeteries and graves have been found and recorded. This list grows daily as we learn of these derelict locations. Neal says “If we don’t preserve these historical museums of our heritage all information will be lost forever.”

Neal and his wife, Joyce, founded the Arizona Pioneer & Cemetery Research Project (APCRP) in 2003 documenting, recording, restoring pioneer cemeteries and graves in Mitchell County, Iowa and in Arizona. Currently Neal and the APCRP team are researching and finding hard to locate and derelict grave sites of our pioneer heritage.

Historic Arizona information is presently posted on two web sites:

http://www.apcrp.org

http://n.j.dushane.home.comcast.net/

Please visit these sites and review the historic information compiled by APCRP.

Figure 1.

Neal at Columbia, Arizona with his 2007Can-Am Outlander Limited ATV c. 2007.

Photograph courtesy: Bruce Colbert

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Figure 2. Columbia