History
The Old Spanish National Historic Trail ran down the Virgin Valley-Overton Arm section of the valleys now occupied by Lake Mead. The trail avoided the canyon, at the southwest of the Black Mountains, where the range is separated from Arizona. The trail heading west to Las Vegas, entered the mountains, went southwest of Pyramid Peak, and then skirted Hamblin Mountain to the south, with Pinto and Razorback Ridges north; north of the ridges lies the small, but broad, arid drainage valley, Bitter Springs Valley, which is southeast of, and adjacent the Muddy Mountains.
The trail enters the southern third of the mountain range, and makes the circuit around Hamblin Mountain. The southwestern end of the Black Mountain range, is at Callville Bay, where the trail returned to the bottom land valleys along the Colorado River heading towards Las Vegas.
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