Miss Virginia Hite, a popular school teacher, arrived at the Plaza with her horse in a lather. She had come from the Sweeney and Anderson mi...

Oro Belle Mine & Mill in the Bradshaw Mountains It was Autumn, 1863. Prescott had not yet been founded. William Bradshaw and a gro...

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...

John Frye was a well-liked 20-year-old who came to Prescott and got a job as a correspondence clerk at the Prescott State Bank. In mid-F...

History lost her real name; she went by "Georgie Brown." She was a "woman of the under world" who caught the eye of ...

As the 20th century dawned, Prescott was much more of a "law and order" town than her early years. However, May 9th, 1911, would...

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...