Goldfield Ghost town Summer 2012

While my parents and brother were visiting us in Scottsdale in supper of 2012, we thought we would take advantage of it and go exploring in AZ. One of the laces we explored was Goldfield Ghost Town on the Apache trail by the Superstition Mountains. The mine of the Lost Dutchman is thought to be near Goldfield. Have you ever heard this tale? Here is what Wiki says about it:

The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine (also known by many similar names) is, according to legend, a very rich gold mine hidden in the southwestern United States. The location is generally believed to be in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, east of Phoenix,Arizona. There have been many opinions about how to find the mine, and each year people search for the mine. Some have died on the search.
The mine is named after the German immigrant Jacob Waltz (c. 1810–1891), who purportedly discovered it in the 19th century and kept its location a secret.
According to many versions of the tale, the mine is either cursed, or protected by enigmatic guardians who wish to keep the mine's location a secret.
The Lost Dutchman's story[edit]This tale involves two German men, Jacob Waltz (or Weitz, Weitzer, Walls, Welz, Walz, et cetera) and Jacob Weiser. However, Blair argues that there is a strong likelihood that there never was a second man named Weiser, but rather that a single person named Waltz (or a variant thereof) was, over the years, turned into two men as the legend of the Dutchman's mine evolved. Blair contends that this story can be divided into "hawk" and "dove" versions, depending on whether the German(s) are said to behave violently or peacefully.^[12] In most versions of the tale, Waltz and/or Weiser located a rich gold mine in the Superstition Mountains (in many versions of the story, they rescue or help a member of the Peralta family and are rewarded by being told the location of the mine). Weiser is attacked and wounded (whether by marauding Apaches or by a greedy Waltz), but survives at least long enough to tell a man called Dr. Walker about the mine. Waltz is also said to make a deathbed confession to Julia Thomas, and draws or describes a crude map to the gold mine.
John D. Wilburn in his book Dutchman's Lost Ledge of Gold (1990), argues that the Bulldog Gold Mine near Goldfield, Arizona, fits very well the description Jacob Waltz gave as the location of his 'lost mine'. Furthermore, Wilburn states that geology indicates that there is no gold in the Superstition Mountains, which are igneous in origin. (However, in some versions,^[13] the 'mine' is actually a cache put there by the Peraltas.)

So, we went to Goldfield Ghost Town, took the train, heard all about the legends and had a great time! Here are a few pictures of our day in the wild west...
Waiting for the train

On the train and other locations in town: