Fairbank is a hot and dusty historical town with the remnants of a stagecoach stop, and support for twenty-mule teams carrying iron ore rock from which silver was extracted in the mill. When underwater floods essentially stopped the further extraction of minerals in nearby Tombstone around the turn of the last century, the town was deserted. Its crumbling lumber remains strewn about except for the school house restored by the conservation group. We hiked along the San Pedro River catching glimpses of the brilliantly colored vermillion flycatcher and two white-tailed deer.
