History Of Rich Hill Arizona Gold mining and Pauline Weaver
in may 1863 legendary mountain man guide trapper led a prospecting expedition up the hassayampa river to the weaver mountains.While in the area scouting a pack animal was lost and during a an attempt to find it gold was discovered in large amounts setting off a Rush and mining boom towns of weaver stanton octave where born after  the discovery on rich hills flat top. One of the biggest and richest strikes  some of the exposed nuggets
where the size of potatoes hence since ever known as the potatoe patch till this day the name stuck forever.
Pauline Weaver the son of white father and Cherokee
mother had worked for the legendary hudson bay company in canada where he ended up from his work with hudson bay in the rockies and then arizona where he lived out the last of his life .