Despite being the Territorial Capital at the close of the 19th Century, Prescott still clung to many aspects of a rough mining town, and the...

Rev. HW Read was Agent for the Duke's and Co. stage. For Reverend William H Read, ministering in the Central Arizona wilderness in ...

Perhaps it was because their hearts were extra-lonely. Perhaps it was because they were caught up in the romance of Western novels. Per...

If one were to think that the Arizona 1880 Mortality Schedule for deaths in 1879 was as dry a source as the Arizona desert just before th...

The first Thanksgiving Day, November 9th, 1866, was a solemn one in Prescott. Some were thankful that the Union had been preserved, whi...

One cannot tell the story of Arizona's first Carnegie library without telling of the organization that birthed it. It was a group of P...

Winter began early in 1864, "and by the middle of December the trails were mostly snowed under and lost--all but those often traveled...

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...

The pioneer ranching mother was one of the true unsung heroes of the West. Her lot was an especially hard one; not only because of a lac...

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