Shooting all over creation

Tuesday 17 August 2010

There’s middle of nowhere and there’s middle of nowhere. Arco is one kind, Stanley is the other. Our hotel, once the holiday home of Bill Harrah is on Ace of Diamonds Avenue which is just an unmade road, as is the whole of downtown.

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According to legend, the point was used as a corral for the wild mustangs which roamed the mesa. Cowboys rounded these horses up, then herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck is only 30 yards wide, and the cowboys fenced it off with branches and brush, creating a natural corral surrounded by the precipitous cliffs. Then they chose the horses they wanted and (just the one time? I don't know) left the other horses corralled on the waterless point, where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado River 2,000 feet below. I don't like this story.