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The Arizona Gold Rush started hundreds of years ago. Great riches were reported in Pimeria Alta, now known as Arizona. Gold dripped from the mountains. The Conquistadors may have taken some of it. The natives and Spanish Jesuits may have hid it. The Spanish Franciscans may have found it. White prospectors later have claimed it. One thing is certain, precious gold was extracted by the Americans since the late 1880s.

The famous legends of the Santa Catalina mountains claims that the Spaniards forced the natives to work gold mines in the mountains. The location of the mines was lost in time, but some parts of the legend gives additional clues.
That is what spawned the Lost Escalante mine and Iron Door Mine legends that brought prospectors to Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. There, they discovered gold. Lots of gold. Some of it may still remain.

This is a listing of all of the entries in the Arizona Gold Rush Time Line. Click on a link to read the account. To get back to this index page, click the "up" link at the bottom of the article (in the center).