Luxury Golf Cart Tour: The Bisbee Historic Tour

This tour starts in the heart of Old Town Bisbee at the junction of Tombstone Canyon and Zacatecas Canyon. It was near this spot that one of the world's largest copper strikes took place, and through which thousands of miners trod back and forth to their up-canyon homes at the beginning and end of their twelve-hour shifts. It was not a coincidence that this location, just outside the miners' place of employment, soon acquired the name of Brewery Gulch and developed a reputation as one of the wildest places in the Southwest with a multitude of saloons, gambling establishments, opium dens and houses of ill repute.

Beginning with the copper claim filed by civilian tracker Jack Dunn in 1877 and continuing through the early 1900s, Bisbee became the largest and most prosperous town in Arizona. Like all old mining towns, Bisbee suffered many natural tragedies including, a 7.4 earthquake on May 3, 1887, 4 major fires, floods and disease resulting in substantial loss of property and life. Many other deaths resulted from the wild, reckless and dissolute lifestyles practiced by many Bisbee residents.

In the course of this tour, tour participants will learn about Bisbee from its very beginning when it was home to many of the 300,000 + Apache Indians that lived in Cochise County, its evolution from a mining camp of tents and shacks to a respectable city and the county seat for Cochise County, its changing morals and the impact of prohibition, and finally what happened to Bisbee after the mines closed in 1974.