Before the arrival of the railroad on January 1, 1887, prices for groceries, travel, and nearly everything else were astonishingly high, and...

  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,...

Surrounding the Civil War, not everybody was inclined to celebrate Independence Day. Many who lived in Yavapai County were sympathetic to So...

As winter approached in 1950, anxiety about the Korean conflict and the effect it might have on America’s booming economy was palpable. H...