Sprecher’s America

Now.
Oatman, AZ is an unincorporated community of fewer than 150 people. The town is at an elevation of 2,701 ft.

Oatman is in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona. It began as a small mining camp when two prospectors struck a $10 million gold find in 1915, though the vicinity had already been settled for a number of years.

Oatman's population grew to more than 3,500 in the course of a year. The Oatman Hotel, built in 1902, remains the oldest two-story adobe structure in Mohave County and is a Mohave County historical landmark.
The town survives as a nostalgic Route 66 stop

Then:

Newspaper Rock, Arizona.

Messages left over centuries by native Americans.

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