It was autumn when a representative of the Arizona Miner made a railway trip from Jerome Junction (today a part of southern Chino Valley), a...

The only surviving image from "The Cringer" There are no known surviving copies of the first movie filmed in Yavapai County. Howev...

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

Above all other Christmases, 1918 was the biggest “stay-at-home” Christmas in the 20th century. This was due to the practicalities of de...

Back in 1911, motorcycles were closer to what people might call motor bikes today. Early machines had pedals like a bicycle. Single-cylin...

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

"Dutch" John Berent was sitting in the defendant's seat in Superior Court. Across from him lay "273 bottles of beer; [a...

Thomas Ward and Alex Douglas couldn't be more relieved. They were finally on a train completing their trip from the Colorado River 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, ...

As this author researches newspapers for this blog, he finds some stories that are historic or interesting, but individually would be to...

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...