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According to Patrick Thomas(arizonaagate.com), the name "bloody basin" , a location north of Care free, might be given because of the variety of reddish pieces of jaspaagate, which almost are staining the soil reddish at this site.

But historians consider a version that is a bloody Indian struggle against the army of the United States, ending in a nightly carnage on the nearby Turret Peak, for more likely. In the bloody basin Jasper and Jaspagate are found with small fortification - agate - patterns. The stones are showing often beautiful "plume"structures

Jeffrey Anderson is describing this location on his website dwarve´s earth treasures.

Patrick Thomas is given further hints for this location at arizonaagate.com .