Area galleries include the Gold Nugget Art
Gallery, the downtown Helen Voehl Gallery, the Wickenburg Gallery, Double D
Western Gallery and Frame Shop, the Betty Ostheller Gallery and the Canyonside
Gallery.
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Other attractions include the Old 761 Santa Fe Steam Locomotive, the
Wishing Well of "Hassayamper" legend and the Desert Caballeros Western Museum:
"Arizona's Most Western Museum" which is home to 400+ works of Western art and
is known as one of the state's finest museums. Adjacent to the museum is a
lovely park dedicated to the museum's volunteers.
The Jail Tree (from which escapes were unknown)
is a 200-year-old mesquite tree that once served as the town jail. Also check
the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts, Box Canyon/Vulture Peak Trail,
Vulture Mine, Robson's Arizona Mining World, more. Long known as the "Dude Ranch
Capital of the World," today we offer a number of great guest ranches.
Wickenburg is also a "place for art" with a variety of businesses offering a
diversity of jewelry, arts, crafts and more. You'll also want to check out the
Las Sonoras de Socorro Museum Store downtown - just a few minutes away is
Renderings, Rustiques, Cowboy Salvage and Quarter Horse Antiques plus many
downtown shops offering Native American designs, Mexican pottery, furniture,
wearable art and many other Southwestern and Western gifts and clothing.
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Everett Bowman, Wickenburg's first and
most famous cowboy, won All-Around Champion Cowboy of the World in
1935 and 1937, is a member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma
City and is honored with a special monument at the Pro Rodeo Hall of
Fame in Colorado Springs. He
held a total of 6 world championships, including steer wrestling, calf
roping and all-around competition. Known as "the George Washington of
Rodeo," he was the father and organizer of the Cowboy Turtles
Association in 1936, which became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association. Much of Wickenburg's rodeo town background was
generated by Everett Bowman's feats. A multi-dimensional person, he
was known throughout the west as the champion mule trainer, became a
pilot with his own private plane, a golfer who had a hole-in-one, a
rancher, family man, businessman, a member of the Arizona Highway
Patrol and Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff, and Constable in
Wickenburg.
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Wickenburg Airport just completed its
expansion including a significantly lengthened runway and new taxiway.
The new runway is compliant for Airport Reference Code B-II and will
accommodate a wider variety of aircraft and significantly increases
the capacity of the airport.
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Wickenburg has a community hospital as well as
several treatment centers and medical clinics. It provides emergency services,
wellness physicians and wellness care including physical, speech, occupational
and massage therapy plus nutritional counseling and fitness and personal
training. It works in partnership with many valley medical facilities including
the fully accredited Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital and has local ties with Sun
Health, 30 miles south. Private practice in a variety of medical services is
available in the community. Life Line Ambulance Service is staffed by paramedics
and EMTs, and is supplemented by helicopter service from Life Net in Wickenburg.
Wickenburg is a "Place
for Art" with a variety of businesses offering a diversity of jewelry,
arts and crafts etc.
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