RIMROCK - Sometime around 1924, a daredevil pilot by the name of Russell Boardman built a small airstrip on a mesa next to the Stoneman Lake road, just east of Montezuma Well.
It had ample room to land a large aircraft, a hangar for his single-engine Travelair and a windsock.
Boardman was a friend of Romaine Lowdermilk, an entertainer who had married one of Camp Verde's native daughters, Virginia Finnie.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowdermilk, who met when the two were working in Phoenix at the Arizona Biltmore, had recently partnered with Boardman to build the first of what would be a handful of dude ranches in the area that became known as Rimrock.
Boardman, who had already gained a reputation as aviator before he arrived in Arizona, began a regular service shuttling visitors to the Rimrock Ranch.
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