Publication: Archaeology Southwest, Vol. 19, No. 2
Author: Lauren Jelinek
Date of Publication: 2005
PDF File: Jelinek-Mormon-Settlement-of-the-Forestdale-Valley.pdf
Description
Abandoned less than six years after its founding, the Mormon settlement in the Forestdale Valley, on what is now the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in east-central Arizona, continues to raise questions. The settlement in the Forestdale Valley, 60 miles south of Holbrook, near present-day Show Low, was one of the earliest attempts to expand Mormon colonization farther south in Arizona Territory.