Whetstone Mountains
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The Whetstone Mountains are a range of mountains in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona.[1]
The Opata called the mountains Babocomari, a name still attached to the nearby Babocomari River. The Spanish continued the name as Sierra del Babocomari. American Colonel Benjamin Bonneville reporting on an inspection tour of the area in May 1859, gave the mountains their current name, because they contain a deposit of a hard fine-grained rock named Novaculite, that could be used as whetstones to sharpen cutlery and tools.[2]
Geography
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The range is located south of Interstate 10, between the Santa Rita Mountains to the west, and the Dragoon Mountains to the east. Higher elevations of the major ranges in the region are in the Madrean Sky Islands ecoregion, with sky island habitats.
Located within the Coronado National Forest, the Whetstone Mountains are in its Sierra Vista Recreation Area, with access via hiking trails.[3]
Kartchner Caverns State Park is in the eastern foothills of the Whetstone Mountains, on Arizona State Route 90. The trailhead for the Foothills Loop Trail is in the park.
Peaks
Peaks in the range include:
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- French Peak, Script error: No such module "convert".
- Granite Peak, Script error: No such module "convert". — southern section.
- Cottonwood Peak, Script error: No such module "convert". — northeast section.
- East Peak, Script error: No such module "convert". — eastern section.
History
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Iron Springs, within the Whetstones is where Wyatt Earp fought in a gunfight during the Earp Vendetta Ride, 1882.[4]
In 1994 two University of Arizona students discovered the bones of a previously unknown dinosaur in the Whetstones. This plant-eating sauropod was Script error: No such module "convert". in length, Script error: No such module "convert". tall, and estimated to weigh Script error: No such module "convert".. In 2018 the Sonorasaurus was named the official dinosaur of Arizona.[5]
References
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- ↑ Bulletin – United States Geological Survey By Geological Survey (U.S.) Published by The Survey., 1909 Item notes: no. 380 Original from Harvard University
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- ↑ Coronado National Forest: Sierra Vista Recreation Area
- ↑ Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake.
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External links
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