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Showing posts with label Sam Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Miller. Show all posts
May 25, 2025

Miller Valley Founders Arrested & Bankrupt

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  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,...
October 25, 2020

1866: Indians Scare Off Pioneer Merchant

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William Harrison Hardy had a good gig going. He owned businesses in a town named for him: Hardyville (present-day Bullhead City). He also ow...
July 5, 2020

Early Independence Day Celebrations

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Surrounding the Civil War, not everybody was inclined to celebrate Independence Day. Many who lived in Yavapai County were sympathetic to So...
March 8, 2020

The Indian Uprising of 1872

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The ruins of Camp Date Creek From February through June 1872, Native Americans launched raiding attacks around and surprisingly close t...
November 11, 2018

The Plaza's Early History

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Before the Courthouse was built, the Plaza fielded baseball games. As Robert Groom plotted out Prescott and created the Plaza in the m...
June 11, 2017

1865: The Shocking Twist at Battle Point (Skull Valley)

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It was a usual day in the freight business for Sam and Jake Miller. Yet in 1865, freighting through the Arizona wilderness was unusuall...
March 5, 2017

The Legend of Burnt Ranch

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The Burnt Ranch house that replaced the burned cabin. It was 1961 when plastics manufacturer Arthur Edison bought the 160 acres for fut...
August 20, 2015

The Miller Bros. Saved Prescott From Starvation

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Sam and Jake Miller were two of the very first whites to lay eyes on the Prescott area when they arrived with the Walker Party in 1863.  ...
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