The White Spar Road is the portion of Arizona State Route 89 that is located within the boundaries of the Prescott National Forest.  And f...

An Arizona Black Diamond Rattlesnake Where there are rattlesnakes, there are bound to be some interesting and amazing stories, and Yavapai C...

Consensus knows that Prescott gets snow, but it seldom lasts long—often melting away before evening. This was the reasoning behind the city ...

James S McClure, age 36, arrived home unexpectedly from a month-long business trip to Colorado. When he came upon his surprised wife, who wa...

Christmas 1921 in Prescott would see several dances, children’s events, charitable acts, and a new set of street lights for downtown. It wou...

  What did the first pioneers eat? Basically, whatever they could get their hands on! Fortunately, Yavapai County’s diverse ecosystem includ...

There was a time when Senator Highway was being considered as a part of the north-south territorial highway, connecting Prescott to Phoenix,...

Were these 1000-year-old artifacts tokens of black magic? Much mystery surrounds the small, clay figurines found in the forest south of Pr...

Mingus Mountain Inn, 1949. In the 1920s, cars were far less dependable and, as a result, service stations were more numerous and spa...

“A continuation of our present practice will result in the absolute extermination of all bears in Arizona within less than five years,” t...

The Christmas of 1920 was both old-fashioned and heartwarming.

The first use of the name “Horsethief Basin” in an Arizona newspaper was on November 1st, 1911, but its history as the heart of a crimina...

Many are familiar with the first building in Prescott, and the oldest surviving log cabin in Arizona, “Fort Misery.”  Then there was...

Palace Station, located 17 miles south of Prescott, is one of the most famous stage stops in Yavapai County. Having been built in 1875,...

One of Franklin Roosevelt's most popular Depression programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC enrolled unskilled and une...

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

In February 1913, a road crew started digging "where the grade of the Verde railway passes" over Sycamore Creek in order to faci...

By 1935, the slow-moving disaster had become genuinely alarming. "The possibility of the absolute destruction of the Prescott Nationa...

The area in which Cleator, Arizona, stands today was the scene of one of the earliest settlements of Anglos in Yavapai County. At first, ...

It was Sunday, January 22, 1911. Two young men had made the risky climb to the summit of Thumb Butte. While enjoying the view and careful...