Many lost treasure stories are based on lore and campfire stories. This one is based on newspaper accounts of a tragedy.

It was all over some disparaging remarks made about a young Mayer woman “whose name none of the witnesses were able to pronounce or spell,” ...

T.F. Averill had “long been known as a resolute and desperate man,” the newspaper wrote, and he was now infuriated with a Mayer saloon owner...

The modern town of Mayer, AZ, was not the first time this area was inhabited; at least three times previously, the area was settled by in...

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...

Many are familiar with the mining riches that came out of Tip Top and Crown King,  but there was another mother-load of gold in that area...

It was 1903 when the first automobile drove into Prescott, and before the year was over, the city fell in love with the new contraption! ...

As Professor Price sat on the train, he looked again at the sample of onyx sent to him from Mayer, Arizona. So impressed was he by the be...

Joseph Mayer It was with a small amount of irony that Joseph Mayer's funeral was held in Prescott. For it was a fateful trip to th...

Anyone who has ever suffered the burn of being "bitten" by one of our local cacti will tell you that the last place you'd w...

The headline in the paper spoke to the shock of the city:   "TEENS HELD IN PRESCOTT GANG DEATH." It began as seven males we...

Cynics say it was a memorial to a boondoggle. Locals say it was a memorial to Mayer's mining history. Unwittingly, it was also a memo...