An Old Mining Town

Friday, before we left Laughlin we spend our mornings to have a nice refreshing breakfast at the hotel casino buffet first and stopped at Harrah's casino for an hour after. Planning on headed Havasu Lake City and spend one night in there, but in route to Havasu we stopped by in an old mining town. Oatman is one of the ghost town here in Arizona. Ghost town because in early 1900 there are alot of people living in this place but on this present time only a 100 or less people maintaining the town. On the year 1915 the town is popular because of the gold mining business and one of the largest produces gold in Arizona. It's been said that Oatman produced 1.8 million ounces of gold. It's very interesting and historical town, there are alot of wild donkeys around waiting for people to feed them with carrots. It's been said that this burros were used on the gold mining before for hauling rocks and ore, they were released when the gold mines were closed. Burros were still all over the town when you go and visit Oatman, they were the descendants of the domestic work animals at old times. There is an old hotel in Oatman they call it now the Oatman Hotel and it was built in 1902. If you are familiar of the guy in the movie "Gone with the Wind" it's a classic love story, a guy there named Clark Gable. He is the King of Hollywood at that time and his wife Carol Lombard is the Queen of Hollywood. Well, they married in Kingman, AZ and honeymooned in this hotel at Oatman. They still have their room at this time well preserved and i took a picture of it. It's a very interesting town surrounded by a rocky mountains and they said that some people just found gold nuggets on the mountains at those times. As we enter the town on our way i said to my husband what kind of mountains are these no trees it's just rock popping on the ground, you know i never seen Mars but this place is like a Mars on the movie. He's just laughing at me and after i knew a little about the place and on my thought i bet under those mountains there are alot of gold on it.