Pauline Weaver

Pauline Weaver, a trapper and scout of Anglo and Cherokee descent, is remembered on this plaque as Prescott's first citizen and a friend of the Indians. The fuller truth is harder. Camped near this spot in 1863 and 1864, Weaver guided the first parties of gold miners and officials into the Yavapai homeland, and the rush he helped open drove the dispossession that followed, ending in the removal of the Yavapai and Dilzhe'e to San Carlos. He died in 1867, at times a genuine mediator, at others a pathfinder for the forces that displaced the people he knew.

What the plaque says

1800-1867. Known as Prescott's first citizen, Weaver was a trapper, miner, and Army scout. He was camped near this spot in 1863 and 1864 when gold miners and government officials first entered the area.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prescott — 0.2 mi
  Arizona's first territorial capital — Whiskey Row, the courthouse square, and a mile-high pine town
• Jerome — 25 mi
  The billion-dollar copper camp clinging to Cleopatra Hill — now the largest ghost town in America
• Tuzigoot — 30 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression

More markers nearby

• Prescott, Territorial Capital — steps away
• Whiskey Row — steps away
• The Palace Saloon — steps away
• Prescott's First Mining District — steps away