Legends live on in historic town of Hornitos
By Jim Cunningham and Flip Hassett
Hornitos’ Beginnings
Hornitos was established in the 1840s when the town fathers of Quartzburg (located about six miles away), concerned over their community’s image banished the riffraff: gamblers, drinkers, and troublemakers to an area several miles away on Burns Creek – but, as luck…