After driving nine miles up a narrow, winding road in the rugged Mogollon Mountains, the ghost town of Mogollon emerges from Silver Creek Canyon like an apparition. Officially established in 1890, the town of Mogollon boomed with rich deposits of gold and silver, as well as timber. People flocked to Mogollon, and by 1915, the town had electricity, water, and telephone lines. Mogollon even had saloons, restaurants, a hospital, a theater, and two red-light districts. At the town’s height there were a few thousand people living there. Fires and floods…
