In 1870, Chino Valley had a handful of ranches, plenty of open space, and occasional visits from fearsome Native Americans.

Some Yavapai County townsites were as speculative as the mineral worth of the ground they stood on. Two towns had particularly short existen...

Consensus knows that Prescott gets snow, but it seldom lasts long—often melting away before evening. This was the reasoning behind the city ...

Arizona is known for straight-line winds, red flag warnings, and dust devils that can be strong enough to create tornado-like destruction, b...

Initially, one might dismiss an account of over 230 pounds  of placer gold just waiting to be found, but the Catholic Church had enough fait...

Some might be surprised at the frequency of earthquakes in the “Quad-City” area,* while those who were aware might be surprised at some o...

His name was Davis Robert Poland, and he was a true frontier placer miner. He came to Yavapai County early, when one could walk down a cr...

The ruins of Camp Date Creek From February through June 1872, Native Americans launched raiding attacks around and surprisingly close t...

Old City Dam, 1920s By the time summer came along, water pressure had consistently fallen so low that everyone was required to boil it....

When scouting first came to Arizona, it started in Prescott and became hugely popular. Not only were boys of the proper age being turned ...

In the early 1950s, the Prescott Airport was a bustling place. Two airlines, Frontier and Bonanza, offered commercial service while many ...

The first automobile to drive into Prescott was a brand new 1903 "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile, which was also the first car ever to ...

"His death [was] all the more dramatic for the reason that he held in his hand a bible which he had been reading." Shocking, ...

The first mention of the mountain that would become known as Mingus is found in the origin story of the Yavapai people. A girl named Kama...

In this edition of "Stories Behind the Names," we look at:  Prescott, Chino Valley, Paulden, Drake, Hell Canyon, Ash Fork, and ...

The railroad's section foreman was five or six miles out toward Jerome, doing his usual job when it was time to take his dinner break...

No one knows exactly why they came in early 1916. It was assumed that they were avoiding one of many purges in soviet Russia. (*1) But on...