Indices

March 30, 2025

The Great Flood of 1891


One year after the terrible storm that caused the Walnut Grove dam disaster, an even worse, two-part storm flooded Yavapai County.

March 16, 2025

Dan (Granville) Fain Nearly Murdered!

Dan Fain around the time
of the incident.

It was seven years before the Rafter 11 would brand its first bovine; when Norman Fain was just a lil’ cowpoke, at the mere age of 3. “Dan Fain was assaulted at Humboldt [May 31, 1910,] and escaped death solely through good fortune,” the Weekly Journal-Miner exclaimed.

March 2, 2025

Two Train Wrecks in Two Weeks

It was the height of summer; late July 1912, when two railroad accidents occurred on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railway.