Cooney found gold and silver in the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico. Today, the town of Mogollon — which boasted a couple thousand residents in 1915 — is considered a ghost town with only ...

The Gila River as it leaves the Mogollon Mountains in southwest New Mexico in the area of the Box Canyon Campground. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) I have long understood the value of our ...

Surrounding them, forested mountains were unblemished by buildings ... Hundreds of years ago, hunter gatherers known as the Mogollon people built a series of rooms in caves among amber-hued ...

“We call it the 'backbone' of Arizona,” Trimble says. “Actually the White Mountains are an extension of the Mogollon Rim.” Whatever it's named after, I bet Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollon ...