To most people in Yavapai County and even the entire Arizona territory, the news produced a shock as great as an earthquake.   On March 1,...

A Journal-Miner editorial described the second Pioneers Home supervisor, Percy V Coldwell, as “a malodorous individual, infecting this city,...

Ad for Election Day, 1918 “Arizona has a compulsory vaccination law, but it has long been a dead letter,” the Citizen wrote. “There has been...

  A year following John Addison Gurley’s untimely death on August 19, 1863, the first edition of the Arizona Miner wrote: “Be it ours to ere...

Pleasure to meet you.  My name is Albert Sieber, and I was considered one of the best Indian scouts in the Arizona Territory, if not the Sou...

Because he gave his life during the Spanish-American War, it is Buckey O’Neill who is the most widely remembered Prescott Rough Rider. H...

Several early visitors to Prescott were well impressed with the young settlement. For these sojourners, the buildings were secondary compa...

Originally, Robert W. Groom came to the area to mine. However, Groom was also a surveyor, which was a rarity in Yavapai County in the mid...

It was September 1867. Lewis A. Stevens must have been anxious about leaving his wife at their ranch in the Granite Dells (then known a...

Governor's Mansion When word first came out that there was a movement to relocate the capital from Prescott to Tucson, most of Y...

As the New Year dawned in 1915, everyone knew the saloons of Whiskey Row would be closed, but realization quickly set in that Prescott...