Cochise
On the route from Willcox to Phoenix we passed nearby Cochise Stronghold. Cochise was chief of the Chiricahua Apache and the leader of an uprising that began in 1861. Before that he was friendly with white settlers. The trouble started when his tribe was wrongly accused of kidnapping a boy from a ranch. Cochise and some of his relatives were captured and held hostage by US soldiers. Cochise escaped but the others were hanged. For the next ten years Cochise and his followers were located at what is now known as Cochise Stronghold. They retaliated with a many raids on white settlements. We did not visit Cochise Stronghold so I have no photos but it caught my imagination and I wanted to write about it.
Mesa
So now we are in Mesa, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. Yesterday we visited the Mesa Natural History Museum.
Phoenix
Today we visited the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. WOW!!
Very cool !!
That’s some big shoes to fill.
Looks like a lot of fun! The desert plants and the Indians !