Dragoon Mountains
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Dragoon Mountains are a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona. The range is about 25 mi (40 km) long, running on an axis extending south-south east through Willcox. The mountain range is one of Arizona's "sky islands".
Mt. Glen (7,512 ft/2,290 m) is highest point in the range according to the Columbia Gazetteer of the World.
The warrior Cochise defeated a small force of Confederate soldiers here at the Battle of Dragoon Springs.
Cochise Stronghold Memorial Park lies near Mt. Glen on the eastern slope of the range and the historic town of Tombstone can be found at the southwestern portion of the range. There are also several ghost towns in the Dragoon Mountains including Gleeson and Courtland.
The Little Dragoon Mountains are the continuation of the Dragoon Mountains north of Texas Canyon.
In 1958 several nuclear bomb tests were performed in the area surrounding the southern portion of the mountains. Several thousand tribesmen and women of the Yavapai nation suffered from radiation sickness due to nuclear fallout in the surrounding areas. Plant life was flourishing prior to 1958 and is now reduced to small shrubs and grass.,[1]
The mountains were included in the short-lived Dragoon National Forest, which was established in 1907 and combined into Coronado National Forest in 1908, in the Douglas Ranger District.
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- ^ Gotleib, Markus: The Sun, page 254. Artesian Press, 1984.
