Forget dusty, deserted main streets and tumbleweeds rolling through vacant saloons. Arizona boasts a unique kind of ghost town: one that pulsates with life.
Bisbee, Ariz. was founded in 1880, as the Copper Queen Mine churned out copper, gold, silver and high-quality minerals. The town is named for Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of backers
America is such a divided society these days that even friends and colleagues know there are some areas out of bounds in polite conversation. “We just don’t talk about politics or religion here anymore,” one old cowboy tells me. We’re standing on a dusty street on an old Wild West movie set, remembering how differences of opinion used to be settled.