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| Finding Charleston and the Real Old West Matt, Mel, Anna, and I trek along the San Pedro River in search of the ghost town of Charleston. Once a thriving town near Tombstone where miners and mill workers lived, it is now a rather hard to find collection of crumbling adobe walls slowly being taken over by mesquite trees and cacti. |
 Mel and Matt have a "eureka" moment in discovering the Charleston ruins across the river from an abandoned rail bridge |
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The walls of Charleston tell tales of lawless cowboys, ladies of the night, grimy and tired mill workers, gun battles, and raucous bars. All is quiet now, but if you listen carefully and let your imagination run wild... |
| ...you'll be able to take part in the gun fights yourself
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"Go west, young woman," Mel says, and you'll find the treasures of the past, as Anna did, below
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| The juxtaposition of cactus and adobe is emblematic of the desert southwest |  |
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Reintroduction of the beaver along the San Pedro River has helped restore some of the year-round flow in this waterway that coursed through outlaw territory and is now a bird migratory route. |
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| The former inhabitants near the San Pedro go back far beyond the 1880's ... petroglyphs that we found while climbing rocks show that indians were around for hundreds of years before that | |
