The Petrified Forest was never a secret, but initially, it was not widely known outside of Arizona (except among geologists, among whom news...

Some Yavapai County townsites were as speculative as the mineral worth of the ground they stood on. Two towns had particularly short existen...

The genesis of White Horse City was the locating of three mines in the Walker district in the Spring of 1899. The original owners, GM Wright...

  The evening of September 24, 1904, was windy, and the smelter’s open building provided some relief from the heat of the furnace. Around 9p...

In the early prospecting days of the 19th century, the Senator and other adjacent mines were thought to be a bonanza of gold ore. They worke...

Stanton, Arizona, is not open to the public or tourists. Instead, it is owned, operated, and occupied by the Lost Dutchman's Mining Asso...

Ad for the saloon where the trouble started.  It all started with a good old-fashioned bar fight. It was midday, June 12, 1878. Deputy Sheri...

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

His name was Davis Robert Poland, and he was a true frontier placer miner. He came to Yavapai County early, when one could walk down a cr...

Many are familiar with the mining riches that came out of Tip Top and Crown King,  but there was another mother-load of gold in that area...

Daniel B Gillette needed a mill for his Tip-Top mines, and the mill needed water. He found a spot 6 miles away on the Aqua Fria River. In...

Wagoner, Arizona, was the kind of town that Hollywood loves portraying. There were outlaws, gold, guns, fights ,  and killings.   Like...

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

Main Street in Zonia as seen in the 1960s Place name books that cover Arizona show no listing for the small ghost town of Zonia. Google ...

Although tons of material regularly enter Earth's atmosphere, very little reaches the ground. In fact, the number of all witnessed an...

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

In this edition of "Stories Behind the Names," we look at:  Prescott, Chino Valley, Paulden, Drake, Hell Canyon, Ash Fork, and ...

Charles P Stanton in front of his hotel. NOTICE: This article is effectively retired.  Four years after this article was publish...

Arizona has some interesting and colorful place names. Here are four from around the greater Prescott National Forest area: Wilhoit, A...

Many have heard that the Jerome Grand Hotel is haunted--it's been featured on cable television. But few know exactly what kinds of ...