Joshua Tree National Park is amazing and there is so many natural features to see and explore there. A lot of people don't realize that the park was home to a number of mines. With mines come mills, and one of the best preserved stamp mills in Southern California is the Wall Street Mill, located near the Wonderland of Rocks in the park. The mill was owned by WF Keys from 1930 until the 1960s and can be accessed with a short 1.2 mile walk. On the way to the mill there are a number of abandoned cars, some ruins, an old windmill, and most interestingly the site of an old west style shootout that happened in 1943.

Keys was involved in a feud with his neighbor, Worth Bagley, and on May 11, 1943 that feud boiled over into a shootout that left Bagley dead. Keys was convicted of manslaughter, but that conviction was later overturned (with help from Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason). In a final act of defiance Keys built a monument to the shootout that can be found along the trail (the original monument has been removed but a replica is there now).

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