Dry Mercy
A stage stop where the Overland road crosses a creek that runs only in March. Founded in 1866 around a well and a water trough, it soon had saloons, a fort and a bank.
Arizona Territory · 1868
Every face in Dry Mercy has a name.
A dry frontier town, a travelling photographer and a registrar who kept papers on everyone. These are the residents on file so far, each with a tintype portrait and a certificate of residence.
Meet the residents
78 residents on file
1868
A photographer set up a skylight studio on Main Street. The registrar had every resident sit for a tintype and filed each plate with a certificate of residence.
The residents
Troopers, card sharps, prospectors, ranch hands and a few men the sheriff is still looking for. Every one has a name, a trade and papers on file.
The Registry
Residents on file
Open a portrait to read the certificate, then turn it over for the registrar's remarks.
78 residents
No resident answers to that description.