by William "Bill" Peck
If there is one lesson history teaches, it is how fast we forget. When I was a boy in Hillside, Arizona, the occupants denied there ever were any Indians or gold mines of significance, even though less than a man's lifetime had intervened between those most notable events. One need only venture into the hills in search of Indian artifacts, arrowheads, pottery or search the mine dumps for evidence of early workings such as old bottles, metal objects or crucibles to realize that you are much too late. Earlier visitors have denuded these places.
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