I saw a number of these stacked stones. Some in circles, some in the shape of rectangles and others like this. They are all over the place. I know the Mojaves lived in the area for a very long time. I assume these were used for dwellings of one kind or another.

These black rocks struck me as odd. No other black rocks were seen anyother place,They came from some place else.  Maybe unworked obsidean or coal. I did not pick them up.  

Some of the dump sites.

In places the old road runs next to the gravel road.  

A very loose pull on this GI Net, an Engineer, battalion not mentioned Germany March 45,

This is the bottle. It was in a ring of rocks in the middle of the desert. I have no idea what the ring of rocks are, but I do know that bottle dates back to the 1850's according to a BLM site that helps its employees date things they find.

Anyway I thought if Steve could find it I would not need to over think it. The first of my mistakes. My sister was heading that way to visit a friend and  asked if I wanted to tag along. I told her I would if we could visit the fort. I was very clear we would need to be in the area early in the morning to beat the heat. This was mistake number two. I did an on line search the night looking for solid information and found almost nothing on its location. This was mistake number three. Ifigured someone in town could point us in the right direction. This actually worked out...kind of. My sister does not hike and does not understand the need to hike early in the morning when its still cool. We had a very late start. We got into town at noon yesterday. After some asking around I found an elderly woman who had visited the site many,many years before. She didn't know the names of roads so her directions started off with turn left at the maniquine and included the most basic stick figure map to find the site after we parked I have ever seen. She was the one good thing that happened. Her visual turn left when you see this and right when you see that were spot on and her stck figure map on were to hike after we parked would have been spot on if had really followed them. At a little past noon it was already in the mid 90's. I had lived in the Mojave and hiked it for decades looking for aircraft crash sites. I knew better than to hike in the heat and did it anyway. I told myself it would be a quick little hike to find its location and get a GPS on it then I would come back in the fall when the weather was cooler. This was mistake number four. The stick figure map had good basic directions, but no distance. The lady told me it was on a large bluff over looking the Colorado. All of it is a large bluff overlooking the Colorado. I saw spots of old trash in shallow ravines to my left. When I got to the river I turned left and only saw an old broken bottle and GPS'ed that location.That was mistake number 5. I ran that number today. I was 100 yards short of the fort. By this time I knew I was half way through my hike time at those temps and headed back to were we parked. That was a good thing. All of it was up hill and the last 50 yards really sucked. My sister was sitting in the car with the AC running. I had a Monster with me when I left the car and I still had a quarter can when I came back. I was over heated and stopped for a bottle of water and a cup of ice on the way out.                                                   

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I know there’s a Chaplain section but I wanted to bring attention to the brave men of the 24th IR and their bravery during their short time in the War.   Korean War chaplain James P. Spencer. Chaplain Spencer served  with the 1st Battalion 24th IR 25th Division. The 24th IR was a Black Regiment that fought hard and with great distinction. Chaplain Spencer was awarded the SS for his actions Nov. 1950.

So, I had known about Fort Mojave for some time. Never thought much about it untill I saw  Steve from Sidetrack Adventure do a show on it last year.  Normally in his shows he tells you how to find it. This is a link to that show.