abstract:Phantom Ranch is a resort village within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. It is located on the north side of the Colorado River near its confluence with Bright Angel Creek and Phantom Creek.
One is by hitching a ride on the packs of mules bringing supplies to those, like Archimedes, who work at PhantomRanch, a collection of wooden chalets at the base of the canyon.
In the 1980s and 1990s he invested with Walter (Jay) Hoyt III, who was convicted in 2001 of defrauding investors with a tax shelter scheme built around phantom cattle and overvalued ranch real estate.