History

You can't reserve them or rent them, but when you need shelter, you're always welcome to use them. They're the humble and always appreciated shelter cabins.

From slave to Oregon Trail traveler to Black landowner, the story of pioneering Oregon homesteader Letitia Carson is an inspiring one—with a BLM connection.

Just over a year ago, the Fairbank Adobe Commercial Building — the largest and most visible structure at the Fairbank Historic Townsite — was clinging to life. By last fall, the building’s condition required a full structural intervention.

Recently, Tucson Field Office partner the Empire Ranch Foundation installed a historic candlestick ringer telephone and crank-magneto in the Bookkeeper’s Office of the Empire Ranch House.

Notoriously known as the location where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened, Tombstone is one of the classic mining boom towns of the American frontier.