Cerro Gallardo or Niggerhead

USA / Arizona / Douglas /

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Believed to be the core of an extinct volcano, 5,295' tall, with very steep, almost perpendicular sides. Official name is Cerro Gallardo. Known locally around Douglas and Agua Prieta as "Niggerhead" or "La Cabeza Prieta."

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Coordinates: 31°19'22"N 109°25'32"W

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jchristiansen (guest)

This was the mountain to which the evangelist, Aimee McPherson, referred as being east of Douglas in her trial in the mid 1930s after she had been in Douglas, Arizona, if I remember correctly.

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