The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Quartzsite's current location was the site of a waterhole from 1863 to the 1880s and was later a stage station, called Tyson's Wells, along the La Paz - Wikenburg Road on Tyson Wash, in what was then Yuma County, in the newly created Arizona Territory. It was about 20 miles from the Colorado River steamboat landing of La Paz and 25 miles from the landing of Ehrenberg from 1866. The next stop was 25 miles to the east at Desert Station.
Tyson's Wells in 1875 was described by Martha Summerhayes, in her book Vanished Arizona:
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