Imagine finding your way through hundreds of miles of mountain ranges, deserts, rivers, and forests on foot and horseback, crossing an international border into the lands of your enemies, and with no maps. How would you do it?

 

This simplified map outlines Cochise County, Arizona, the final American southwestern frontier.  Created in 1881, the county encompasses 6,218.77 square miles and is the size of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.

 

Many of the locations presented in Return of the Blue Mountain People are real.  The narrative line is fictional (as is the Ranch), although the story is based on true incidents originating in the Sierra Madre circa 1886 through the mid-1930's.