In 1880 the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad began constructing a bridge over 250-foot-deep Canyon Diablo, midway between Winslow and Flagstaff. Financial difficulties halted the project, leaving an incomplete span at rail’s end. A town sprang up on the east side of the canyon, its population reaching about 2,000—mostly railroad workers, fugitives, gamblers and prostitutes. At …
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