"You can't tour with apes!" It's something I've heard for years by guys who don't ride with apes.

Travelers seeking a quiet place need look no further than the numerous towns around the world that have been abandoned for one reason or another.

Tennis clinics start Tuesday KINGMAN - Fall tennis lessons are being offered by the city of Kingman Parks & Recreation Department with two sessions and three age/skill levels available.

In the mid-1800s, a young woman walked into Yuma with a blue tattoo inked across her chin.

The picture of Olive Oatman on the cover of Margot Mifflin 's The Blue Tattoo is arresting: a dark-haired, beautiful woman, covered from neck to wrists to the floor in an elaborate Victorian-era dress stares forward, wearing a Mohave chin tattoo.

The picture of Olive Oatman on the cover of Margot Mifflin 's The Blue Tattoo is arresting: a dark-haired, beautiful woman, covered from neck to wrists to the floor in an elaborate Victorian-era dress stares forward, wearing a Mohave chin tattoo.

The picture of Olive Oatman on the cover of Margot Mifflin 's The Blue Tattoo is arresting: a dark-haired, beautiful woman, covered from neck to wrists to the floor in an elaborate Victorian-era dress stares forward, wearing a Mohave chin tattoo.

Remember the Skin Project in which writer Shelley Jackson asked volunteers to each have one word of a short story tattooed onto their bodies? Perhaps the participants in that project will have another shot at literary/tattoo fame.

By JIM GIAMETTA Executive Editor OATMAN, Ariz. -- What does this once gold-mining town on the southern edge of the sweltering Mohave Desert have in common with two movie giants of the early silver screen? If Clark Gable's name rose to the top of your list, go to the head of the class.

At some point during late winter vandals destroyed the 100+ year-old Times Gulch miner's cabin two miles west of Oatman, Arizona.