Jack San Felice I love your story telling abilities. You and Hank are neck and neck in my way of thinking.

Interesting.

Cool

love it!

iI love this channel! Its too bad Wards cabin was torn down. Why was it not left standing as a historical landmark of the Superstition Mountains?

I have to get out to Arizona one of these days. Maybe check out Phoenix. From Northern Va. Where the traffic is.

I’ve been to this spot

Great content as always! Keep up the good work.

Wow, I've been there several times but never new what the cabin's name was. Now I know and the history of it, thanks!

Amazing History

As always good show

As a little girl, I swear I met bob ward at a stable I “worked” at. He was a character & he had a trick horse there. I just remember that face & piercing eyes & rogueness w a big heart whom tried to inspire me to think outside of the box. Do u know if he was there at the stable called Weldons at Papago Park in the mid to late 70’s?

Awesome history!

What a great episode! I love the idea of being on location at an old cabin and telling the history behind it. I know of a ranch in great condition that i havn't been able to find much info on, in Tonto Basin, called Boyer Cabin. I noticed reading about the Pleasant Valley War that there was a Boyer who hung out with the Tewksbury's, I wonder if it's the same Boyer. It's close enough to the Superstitions and might have a rich history behind it, it's also kind of close to Al Sieber's mine and cabin at Del Shey Basin, so maybe you guys know more about it and maybe it'd make a great episode! Just a thought, keep up the great work guys I'm enjoying this channel even more and more!

@mysteriesofthesuperstition6793

Жыл бұрын

YES in 1999 the BLM Bureau of Land management for SAFETY REASONS BUT THEY BUILT A COUNTY PARK AROUND THE ENTIRE AREA

Awesome stuff, thank you guys

Spent a lot of time there with Bob and Bambi

Another great true story keep up the good work really like watching and learning about these stories Thank You 😊👍

One of your best one's yet! Fantastic tale!

You left out “The Lost Your Mine”... not much gold found there👍😊

Great history!! Thank you!!

Love the new website

More outstanding history and it's a real shame of BLM for tearing down the cabin, since it was part of the history of the area too. Keep up the awesome work and thanks again to Larry Hedrick and crew for keeping this going. I am sitting here trying to remember the elderly gentleman's name and wondering if he's still with us. I remember Charlie and him talking about Jacob a lot and if my memory serves me correctly, this elderly gentleman owned one or two of the mines at one time or still owned the property when it was talked about. I am hoping to make it back out to Arizona in the next few years and visit Superstition Mountains Museum again and take some tours of the area. I did make the drive from Tulsa, OK to Mesa just to attend Charlie's funeral service. Charlie and I had been friends for many years and we met up for the 1st time in McKinney, TX and got to know each other over the years and we both attended the same church, just different cities.

@davidj.lebaron709

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, BLM and Forest Service, have no regard for history, whatsoever. Those bastards, are nefarious and notorious, for destroying Our History. They should be steaked/staked out over ant-beds, and left for vultures and coyotes, to finish off!!!

Thanks for another one guys . Jack think you were a street cop in New York City. What a difference in character s you must have seen from street to dusty trail prospecters

Good story.

Thanks so much for another great story and History lesson. Take care and stay safe. Ron

Why was Bob Ward's hut torn down? And when was it torn down? Thanks for another awesome story.

@carlsowell8099

2 жыл бұрын

@Hank Sheffer sorry I will have to watch it again Wasn't sure why it was torn down. Thank You.

@jacksanfelice8840

2 жыл бұрын

It was torn down by BLM Bureau of Land Management in 1999-They stated it was a haven for drug dealers and other illegal activities but that is questionsble all those old timers had passed on with oldage and illness. Thanks

@carlsowell8099

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacksanfelice8840 I hope you guys realize just how important you are to the preservation of history. I consider all of you guys my hero's. Larry , Jack ,Hank and the late Charlie. You have an awesome job of keeping history alive and making it so interesting. Hell , I wish I had you guys as my history teacher. Thank You ALL for what you do. You guys are special to me.

Those were the days when America still had FREEDOM!

@tylernilson7021

3 жыл бұрын

America has never been free

Are those prospectors’ old boot monuments in the Superstition Mountains Museum or did they go somewhere else?

Good job guys

Just over that large hill is the Quarter Circle U ranch. Emery Taylor had the old claim to that site. If you know where to look you'll see the holes we dug with a backhoe where we found platinum ore.

Oh goodie another story 👌❣

When a young whipper snapper asked an old timer why he carried a 45, the old timer replied, “because they don’t make a 46, sonny!”

.45 Bob is still alive, he now lives in Phoenix. In 2002, the area south was claimed and "45" lived in a squatters cabin on that site after Ward's cabin was torn down.

It's interesting how the make up of these special breed of people are all geared the same. I had a buddy who was a graduate of the "mckay school of mines" something in there eyes when you had a sit-down conversation with any of them for the most part. you can call it suspicion ,but the hermit life seems to be the path....

That was great! So what happened to the Bobs?

I want the nick name 45 bob

@SteveSmekar-ll6ln

4 жыл бұрын

You got it, it is yours!

@mysteriesofthesuperstition6793

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

30 years looking 4 the gold,I think those mountains are a decoy waltz brought that gold from cally and stashed his gold in them there mountains, has that lighter been scrutinized for that quartz origin?

Before I get to old and stove up I gotta come out there can you still do any prospecting

@MikeDonner

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't waste time looking for gold Todd, you'd be a little late for that I think. I don't believe you'd be allowed to just go out there with a 'pick and shovel' and get to work. What you can do though, which is fun but maybe not as exciting, is explore the terrain and locations that have been mentioned in the books and articles so you can put yourself back in that time, and imagine what it must have been like as a prospector "in them thar hills"!

@toddsill6230

4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeDonner when I was a young man I did some exploring amature prospecting in California fort Irwin to be precise found one nice nugget it was stolen by the army

@MikeDonner

4 жыл бұрын

@@toddsill6230 Sounds like you learned the first valuable lesson in finding gold: Don't tell anybody! I guess they figure you found it on their dime :) It also sounds like you'd be well suited to having a great time in the Superstitions, just don't visit during the summer is my only advise!

Bob Wards cheryl ann mine is located in La barge spring canyon. Lee was with bobs wife in his truck on his way to the QCU ranch just past the turn off when he got shot in the head supposedly when his .22 fell out of its holster hanging from the sun visor. I know different.

So, What Gave the BLM - The Right to Tear Down This Cabin ?

@jacksanfelice8840

2 жыл бұрын

because the old Cabin was on BLM Land and they considered it a hazard hey the govt does not need permission to tear down a historic landmark but catch you out there doing something well..... Thanks for the comment!

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70 miles east of Phoenix is far too east.

Have you ever heard of any stories about Ben Lilly? I do not know if he made it that far west and of course he was more of a hunter of animals.

I lived at the Q circle U Ranch as a child and used to stop off when we were gathering cattle at Howard's cabin to get a soda pop it seems if my memory serves me correctly that Bob Ward lived at the old store and Trapper lived in the cabin? I'm not 100% great story I've met Bob Ward he was the neighbor

Yep..no right where cabin.use to be.BobW kinda turned odd after awhile.you kinda sat on knifes edge.watch him see what he was meaning with statement.But he wasn't as bad as needle bunch.ugh!!

Great story! Why did they tear down the Bob Ward Cabin?. How tore it down? Love the show!

@Moonracey1

4 жыл бұрын

He said the BLM tore it down...the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM manages approximately 245-247 million acres in the US or approximately 1 out of every 10 acres country wide. They are for the most part public use areas. I'm not sure as to why they tore it down... would have been nice to leave it intact for historical reasons but maybe it was deemed a safety hazard.

Who tore it down? Did you say the blm?

@mysteriesofthesuperstition6793

Жыл бұрын

YES in 1999 the BLM Bureau of Land management for SAFETY REASONS BUT THEY BUILT A COUNTY PARK AROUND THE ENTIRE AREA

@jakemuney3418

Жыл бұрын

@@mysteriesofthesuperstition6793 oh, I thought you meant Black Lives Matter. They've been doing a lot of damage to our country. Thanks for clearing that up. I'm still going on a "spree" someday though. Good job on your video. Somewhere in that park there is another cabin. Can you explore and document that? Best regards, J.B.

Sir that doesn't look like a sombrero it looks like a taco bell restaurant