Blogs from Globe, Arizona, United States, North America

AL SIEBER Al was an ornery old Dutchman. In his long career in the Apache Wars he fought in more Indian engagements and killed more adversaries than Dan’l Boone, Jim Bridger, and Kit Carson combined. Al was born in Mingolsheim, Germany on February 29, 1844. His dad died in 1845 and after the Baden Uprising ended disastrously in 1848 his mom gathered up her 8 children and came to America. They settled in 1849 among other Dutchmen near Lancaster, Pennsylvania and then moved on to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1856. Minnesota was still a wild country then and was where Al honed his marksmanship and outdoor skills. Minnesota attained statehood in 1858. Due to age constraints Al was not able to enlist in the military for service in the War Between the States until the ... read more

Geo: 33.3958, -110.789This was a spur of the moment deal. The carpet cleaners were here at the house and we needed to go someplace while the place dried. Where to go? Someplace close and interesting---someplace we hadn't seen yet... Always a sucker for scenic roads, we took off east to Globe. While not what you'd call picturesque itself, the road there goes through the beautiful Queen Creek canyon. Bob says it's 80 miles of driving for 2 miles of scenery let's-don't-ever-come-here-again, and that's one way---but we learned something.Globe is the center of the copper world--so they say (the #1 producer for Arizona, anyway). After we left the canyon we came to a string of decrepit mining towns put together from garage sale left-overs. The towns were pretty yukky but the mines were Impressive---capitol I. You could ... read more