ABOUT US

We are your hosts, the Samuelsons. We have been involved in birding and nature activities, and in meditation and yoga, for most of our lives, and now we have found the perfect place to enjoy all of these activities. We enjoyed careers in wildlife management and public communications, and in recent years have been tour guides for the Elderhostel contractor in southeast Arizona out of Bisbee, Geronimo Educational Tours, on trips to Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) Mexico, on birding tours in southeast Arizona, and tours to Mata Ortiz, Mexico, home of the famous potter Juan Quezada and over 600 potters. We look forward to hosting meditation retreats, concerts, and art workshops at our Retreat.

We have made Dos Cabezas our home and have fallen in love with the dramatic beauty and history of Dos Cabezas. The property which has now evolved into Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Bed and Breakfast is an historically important landmark. In the fascinating book The Story of Dos Cabezas by Carol Wien and Phyllis de la Garza, one of Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat's three historical adobe homes is featured. We are committed to the ongoing preservation of the adobe homes at the Retreat. Our guests have a special opportunity to experience and feel what it might have been like a hundred years ago, in a truly historical environment.

 
 Moonrise over luminarias during the holidays!

The guesthouse bedrooms are in what was originally the Kirby house, built in the late 1800's, and  later known as the Hospitality House, owned by T.N. McCauley, owner of the famous Mascot Mine, and after that as Paul and Mary Duncan's Dos Cabezas Craft Center. 

Mr. McCauley was a flamboyant character, and a notorious "winer and diner" of prospective investors for his copper mine. He entertained his prospects in the Hospitality House, which we now call the "Pioneer House" where your guest bedrooms are located. He helped build the area to 4,000 residents by selling stock in the Mascot Mine, and he was a hero in the area by providing jobs and a quality lifestyle to "his" townspeople. They adored and worshiped him. The sale of mine stock was a good plan which financed the town and the people, until it became known that the money which people invested went not to copper production, but to finance the livelihood of McCauley and the 4,000 residents of the area. Years later it was discovered that the sale of McCauley's mine stock was a lot of "creative financing," and it took place in part right out of our guest house where you will be staying! Today, Dos Cabezas is noted as one of the top ten ghost towns in Arizona, once home to Doc Holliday's long-time partner, Big Nose Kate, T.N. McCauley, and other old timers of the Old West.

The Retreat is in the beautiful Dos Cabezas mountains and home to a great birding population, javelina, mule deer, and stars like you've never seen anywhere else. The Retreat property is blissfully quiet, perfect for meditation, yoga, hiking in the nearby Chiricahua mountains, and just getting away from it all. 

When we purchased this property, many artifacts dating over a hundred year time frame from the 1890's to the 1990's were left on the premises.

 
 Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat 
                    Private Museum.

Fascinating and some rare, these artifacts have been placed in a room in the old Hospitality House that was once a gift shop in the 1970's and 1980's. The property was owned during those years by Paul and Mary Duncan who opened the Dos Cabezas Craft Shop here in the old pioneer house. They made unique wooden muscial instruments, jewelry, and many friends. Paul was renowned as a talented instructor in woodcrafting and silversmithing. We now call what was once the Duncan's gift shop the Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Museum (not open to the public) and we will be happy to give you a private tour during your stay.

We love Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Bed and Breakfast and we hope you do too!          

Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat Bed and 
Breakfast during the holidays.

 
         Yes, it snows in southeastern Arizona!

      
       Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat 
                     Bed and Breakfast   
                        1-520-384-6474

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