Aravaipa Creek

Along the rocky terraces above Aravaipa Creek, the saguaro blooms; its green fruit bulbs and withers, untasted by the human tongue.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

In April 1871, the waters of Aravaipa Creek at its junction with the San Pedro dried up, swallowed by the parched earth around Camp Grant.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

At the junction of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River, about fifty-five miles by trail north of Tucson, Camp Grant had been built in 1859.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Along the rocky terraces above Aravaipa Creek, the saguaro blooms; its green fruit bulbs and withers, untasted by the human tongue.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

In April 1871, the waters of Aravaipa Creek at its junction with the San Pedro dried up, swallowed by the parched earth around Camp Grant.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

At the junction of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River, about fifty-five miles by trail north of Tucson, Camp Grant had been built in 1859.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Springs Valley, this post a successor to old Camp Grant, which was at the mouth of Aravaipa Creek, at the junction of that stream with the San

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Secluded, rustic luxury at the edge of Aravaipa Creek.

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