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Showing posts with label Rough Riders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rough Riders. Show all posts
April 12, 2026

The Great Fire Changed the Plaza Forever

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Before the Great Fire of July 14, 1900, the Courthouse Plaza was described as a “desolate and neglected waste.” The white rail fence surroun...
June 9, 2024

Teddy Roosevelt in Arizona and Prescott

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Roosevelt speaking in Phoenix, Sep. 1912   The day the Buckey O’Neill Rough Rider monument was unveiled on the Plaza (July 3,1907,) it was h...
May 25, 2019

The Rocky Road That Brought the Rough Rider Monument

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As soon as news reached Prescott of William “Buckey” O’Neill’s death in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, one of his closest friends,...
April 28, 2019

The Amazing Mascots of the Arizona Rough Riders

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Arizona Roughrider mascot "Cuba" The Arizona Regiment of the Roughriders had three different animal mascots. Two were canin...
March 31, 2019

Rough Rider Cofounder Gov. Alexander Brodie

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Because he gave his life during the Spanish-American War, it is Buckey O’Neill who is the most widely remembered Prescott Rough Rider. H...
September 30, 2018

Famous Novelist & Statesman Falls In Love With Prescott

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Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. (1862-1932) Member of the British Parliament, novelist, and Knight, Sir Gilbert Parker landed in Lakewood, New ...
September 29, 2015

The Colorful, Short Life of Mayor Buckey O'Neill

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Mayor William Owen "Buckey" O'Neill, 1860-1898 Even renowned Western fiction authors could not dream up a more interestin...
September 21, 2015

Teddy's Rough Riders Originated in Prescott

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When news arrived of the explosion and sinking of the USS Maine, William "Buckey" O'Neill was the Mayor of Prescott. Buck...
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