Dragoon, Arizona

Dragoon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

[6] Dragoon's Texas Canyon is so regionally unique that it inspired a series of souvenir postcards of which vintage cards can still be found today on ebay!

[8] Dragoon is in an area known as the Sky Island in the United States and is a high mountain valley ranging in elevation from 4,500 to 5,000 ft.

The proper name for Sky Islands is Madrean Archipelago which covers an area of approximately 40,536 km2 (15,651 mi2) in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

During WWII, the US Military created an Internment Camp for Japanese dignitaries in Dragoon at Triangle T Dude Ranch.

Their memorandum concluded that the Japanese who were held at Dragoon did not have access to media sources during the relevant time period.

Special Agent Wells Bailey of the State Department accompanied them when they left Arizona and was with them until their arrival in New York City on June 10, 1942.

They were immediately taken to the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City and were held incommunicado until they were taken aboard the SS Gripsholm on June 13, 1942.

Agent Bailey can testify to the fact that this group was not allowed to see any newspapers whatsoever during the time they were in Arizona and while they were en route to New York City.

[22] It is also home to the world renowned Amerind Foundation that works to document, preserve and protect Native American culture.