Prescott Arizona

 

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Hmmm The Galloping Goose. We go to visit Prescott at least once a year and I am not sure there have been any visits where we did not go to the Goose to look at jewelry. It is possible we have but...I'm not sure. Karen had slowed down a bit because she has so much jewelry from here. For a while it was a store further down that sells diacrylic glass where she had been buying jewelry. But this trip she bought from the Galloping Goose.

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The picture to the left is the infamous Whiskey Row in Prescott. It was called Whiskey Row for all the saloons that were here during Prescott's early history. Much of it burned down in July of 1900 but one of the true stories is during the fire the cowboys drinking in the Palace Saloon dragged the bar out to the square in order to save it and keep on drinking watching the fire.  The statue in the picture below is of Bucky O'Neil and is a tribute to Bucky and the other Arizona Rough Riders

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One of the landmarks in Prescott is Thumb Butte. The grave below is Big Nose Kate whose real name is Mary Katherine Horony Cummings who was the common law wife of Doc Holliday. I found it kind of interesting that there is now a Wal*Mart next to her resting place. There is a plastic container on her grave site that contains a notebook where people from all over the world have left notes to Kate. The name Big Nose came not from the size of her nose but rather because her propensity to stick her now in everybody's business.

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