We had breakfast with the McDougals and a couple of friends who wanted some of Jim's bacon. Kathy caught the Mexican jays in the act of scoping out possibilities ...
We took a shorter hike down to the Faraway Ranch site in the Monument (Jim and Kathy drove ... doctor's orders ... minimize walking, maximize healing). This was a guest ranch established by hard-working Swedish immigrants, Emma and Nels Erickson, and their daughters, Lillian and Hildegard, and later owned by their son, Benjamin. Lillian and her husband, Ed Riggs, took a major role in both creating the guest ranch and in pushing to create the Chiricahua National Monument (1924). Ed was also the trail supervisor for a C.C.C. that built most of the trail system in the Monument. Good reason to encourage immigration to our country ... hard-working, risk-taking, energetic and forward-looking immigrants can and do make our country great ... no walls, please!
On our way back we found some Coue's white-tailed deer enjoying the meadow that previously had housed the C.C.C. camp... (smaller deer, found at higher elevations in Arizona)
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