Arizona historian James McClintock called the Lost Belle McKeever, “the richest gold ledge ever discovered in North America.” It was named not for some boom town belle but for the daughter of a family massacred by Indians near Gila Bend in 1869. The Abner McKeever family was fording the river when they were attacked. One of McKeever’s sons was on the opposite bank and survived the massacre. He saw them ride off with his 13-year-old sister Belle.
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