Henry Wickenburg In 1870, Wickenburg was a young, booming town. Founded in 1863, it wasn’t officially incorporated until 1909. The boom was ...

Abraham Harlow Peeples was one of the true early settlers of Central Arizona. He first arrived at Ft. Yuma in 1863 to prospect in the vir...

William H Kirkland Bill Kirkland had a restless spirit, never wanting to stay too long in one place. At the age of 18 he left Missouri t...

Come 1871, the farmers and ranchers of Kirkland and Peeples Valley had a logistics problem. They wanted access to the Wickenburg and Phoen...

PINOLE: A food made of maize, cacao beans, and spices that originated with the Aztecs. It was January 4th, 1864. A.H. Peeples had just...