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

  The Weekly Journal-Miner of August 13, 1890, captured some of the unique language used around Yavapai County and Arizona in their earliest...

Sam Peckinpah was in Prescott directing the 199th movie made in Yavapai County, “Junior Bonner, when he noticed a nude painting titled “Olym...

Initially, one might dismiss an account of over 230 pounds  of placer gold just waiting to be found, but the Catholic Church had enough fait...

Pioneers' Home, Christmas Dinner As Christmas 1934 approached, the Great Depression was hanging on doggedly. Yet by this time, people we...

After a thorough search, lasting twenty years, this author and observer found a treasure that many have been missing for some time: Small-To...

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

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...

For Arizona, prohibition came early in 1915. Although stills were probably put to work almost immediately, law enforcement did not seize ...

For decades, the history of what was once an iconic building on the Plaza lay veiled. It was known as Howey Hall, and it stood in service...

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

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...

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

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 ...

Come 1871, the farmers and ranchers of Kirkland and Peeples Valley had a logistics problem. They wanted access to the Wickenburg and Phoen...

PINOLE: A food made of maize, cacao beans, and spices that originated with the Aztecs. It was January 4th, 1864. A.H. Peeples had just...

Dick Zabriski  It all started when a 7th grader named Dick Zabriski looked up into the night sky and saw an object that, according...

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

The first mention of the mountain that would become known as Mingus is found in the origin story of the Yavapai people. A girl named Kama...

It was 1872 when the John Sturns family was making its way from Arkansas to Del Rio Springs. On the way, they picked up a young man head...