MAVERICK
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NAME: Maverick COUNTY: Apache ROADS: 2WD LEGAL INFO: T4N, R26E CLIMATE: Some snow in winter, warm summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring, summer, fall |
COMMENTS:
On the White Mountain Apache Reservation, about 5 miles south of Reservation Lake. Occupied, and considered a 'closed area' by the apaches REMAINS: Old and new structures, even a heliport |
| Maverick Arizona was not a cowtown, it was a logging camp owned by Southwest Lumber Mills. They had a 99 year lease that was broken when the great Indian push of going back to nature happened. There was one general store owned by the company and when I lived there, a single school with grades 1 through 4 in one room and grades 5 through 8 in the other. Snow in Maverick was very deep all winter and the men could not work in the woods so you got food at the company store all winter and then they kept your pay in the logging season until you had re-paid your debt. Many people became trapped by this system as when their debt was finally paid, the snow came again. I lived there from about 1952 through 1959. Regards, Roy Daniel Elevation about 7,800 ft. |
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