Editing Quartzsite, Arizona (section)

==History==
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, Arizona|Yuma County]], in the newly created [[Arizona Territory]]. It was about 20 miles from the [[Colorado River]] steamboat landing of [[La Paz, Arizona|La Paz]] and 25 miles from the landing of [[Ehrenberg, Arizona|Erhenburg]] from 1866.  The next stop was 25 miles to the east at [[Desert Wells, La Paz County, Arizona|Desert Station]].<ref name=Handbook>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ewINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR27  Richard Josiah Hinton, The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and Scenery, Payot, Upham & Company, San Francisco, 1878]</ref>{{rp|xxvii}} <ref name=OffMapAZTerr1865>[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1751~180038:Official-Map-Of-The-Territory-Of-Ar?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:Official%2BMap%2BOf%2BThe%2BTerritory%2BOf%2BArizona;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=4&trs=6  Official Map Of The Territory Of Arizona, With All The Recent Explorations. Compiled by Richard Gird C.E. Commissioner. Approved By John N. Goodwin, Governor. In Accordance With An Act Of The Legislature, Approved Oct. 23d. 1864. We hereby certify that this is the Official Map of the Territory of Arizona, and approve the same. Prescott October 12th 1865. (with signed seal dated 1863). Published By A. Gensoul, Pacific Map Depot. No. 511 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Lith. Britton & Co. San Francisco. From davidrumsey.com, accessed on 6/21/2016]</ref><ref>[https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~222539~5505585?qvq=q%3AMap%2BOf%2BThe%2BTerritory%2BOf%2BArizona%3Bsort%3APub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=5&trs=25 Sheet No. 1 & 3, Department of Arizona. Revised, 1875. Compiled under the authority of Maj. Gen. J.M. Schofield Commanding Mil. Div. of the Pacific by 1st Lieut. J.C. Mallery Corps of Engrs. Published by authority of The Hon. The Secretary of War in the Office of the Chief Of Engineers U.S. Army Washington D.C. 1876. Drawn by J.W. Ward. From davidrumsey.com, accessed on 6/15/2018]</ref>
<ref name=OffMapAZTerr1880>[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1807~170060:Official-Map-Of-The-Territory-Of-Ar Official Map Of The Territory Of Arizona Compiled from Surveys, Reconnaissances and other Sources. By E.A. Eckhoff And P. Riecker, Civil Engineers, 1880. Drawn by Eckhoff & Riecker. The Graphic Co. Photo-Lith. 39 & 41 Park Place, N.Y. Entered ... 1879, by Emil Eckhoff and Paul Riecker ... Washington, D.C., 1880] “Official Map of the Territory of Arizona” showing La Paz – Wikenburg Road and Hardyville – Prescott Road with mileage between locations along the roads, from davidrumsey.com, accessed on June 21, 2016</ref>

Tyson's Wells in 1875 was described by [[Martha Summerhayes]], in her book ''Vanished Arizona'':
{{Cquote|At all events, whatever Messrs. Hunt and Dudley were doing down there, their ranch (Desert Station) was clean and attractive, which was more than could be said of the place where we stopped the next night, a place called Tysons Wells. We slept in our tent that night, for of all places on the earth a poorly kept ranch in Arizona is the most melancholy and uninviting. It reeks of everything unclean, morally and physically.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/vanishedarizonar00summ/page/n9 Martha Summerhayes, ''Vanished Arizona Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman'', The Salem Press Co., Salem. Mass., 1908.]</ref>{{rp|144–145}}}}

In the valley around Tyson's Wells were places known to have been successfully worked by individual prospectors since the beginning of the [[Steamboats of the Colorado River#Colorado River Gold Rush|Colorado River Gold Rush]] of the 1860s up until the 1950s.  Some large scale operations in the early 20th century were failures.<ref>[http://minerdiggins.com/qzh.html Quartzsite Mining History] from minerdiggins.com accessed September 29, 2018.</ref>

On July 31, 1978, [[serial killer]] [[Randy Greenawalt]] killed four people in a mass shooting, including a one year old, a 15 year old, and two adults in their twenties.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruelas |first=Richard |title=The story of Gary Tison's fateful final escape — from those who were there |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-best-reads/2017/09/19/arizona-tison-gang-spree-prison-escape-1978/660262001/ |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}</ref>

In March 2006, 70-year-old Betty Lou Japel and 73-year-old Kenneth Miller were shot and killed by Gregory Cole. Japel remained [[Unidentified decedent|unidentified]] for two years after her death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Betty Lou Japel, age 70 |url=https://gunmemorial.org/2006/03/29/betty-lou-japel |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=gunmemorial.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Betty Lou Japel – The Charley Project |url=https://charleyproject.org/case/betty-lou-japel |access-date=2024-12-07 |language=en}}</ref>