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Buckhorn Mineral Baths & Wildlife Museum (Images of America)

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From fire to empire, the tale of the Buckhorn baths is a rags-to-riches tale. After a disastrous 1935 Christmas Eve fire destroyed their small country gas station/taxidermy business, a brand new, unimagined door opened for Ted and Alice Sliger. In 1936, the Sligers started turning tragedy into triumph, transforming a dusty patch of scrub-covered desert eight miles east of Mesa into a legendary roadside oasis. Their chance discovery of mineral-laden hot springs ended in the valley’s first therapeutic spa. With the New York Giants’ initial attraction to Buckhorn’s mineral baths, a decades-long association with Major League Baseball helped pave methods to Cactus League baseball. By the point it closed in 1999, the Sligers had built the Buckhorn into an iconic, quintessential roadside business along the route of 4 federal highways. It was once renowned for its celebrity guests, eclectic architecture, colorful neon, mineral spa, retreat for baseball players, natural world museum, and wide-ranging number of memorabilia.

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