This
view, from a vantage point above the main campsite (where Cochise and his
immediate family made their lodgings) shows the proximity of Knob Hill
(otherwise known as Treaty Peak, since it was here that Cochise directed
Jeffords and Sladen post a white flag to declare the making of peace).
The stand of trees near the base of the "big rock" cluster is almost certainly
where Alice Rollins Crane stood in 1895 when she photographed the boulders.
This photo looks out westward from the slopes of the Dragoons. Unseen
and far, far behind the hill is Interstate 10.
Ed
Sweeney takes it easy at the foot of Cochise's Rock (seen here from the
south) and scans the wide open San Pedro Valley with binoculars.
The campsite area is wonderfully pristine and largely unaffected by modern
civilisation. The vistas from this vantage point are much the same
as they were in Cochise's day (highways are so distant, and to a large
extent hidden from view by the rolling terrain, as to be easily overlooked).
A few ranches are discernible here and there, but the nearest town is out
of view and even nearby Tombstone is eclipsed by projecting spurs of the
Dragoons range. I myself have been to this glorious place dozens
of times when, for hours on end, the only sign of modern life was the occasional
passing of a plane overhead. |
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