Nathaniel S “Boston” Graves died January 12, 1911, at the age of 88. He was “one of the earliest arrivals in this section of the Territory a...

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...

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...

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

Gurley Street, 1933 It was the poorest of times. It was the richest of times. Despite being in the depths of the Great Depression, Presc...

The Barlow Massicks' "Castle on the Creek" Thomas Gibson Barlow Massicks had just visited his Catoctin Mine and was ridin...

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

Joseph Rutherford Walker, circa 1860 It is well understood that Fort Whipple was established to protect Anglos around the Prescott area....

Winter began early in 1864, "and by the middle of December the trails were mostly snowed under and lost--all but those often traveled...

The reasons why Yavapai County needed a new, third, (and current) courthouse seemed endless. First, the Old Courthouse had become too sma...

Walnut Grove Dam The Dam: "Besides being the largest piece of solid masonry in the United States, [the Walnut Grove Dam] also...

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...

Old Stone Cabin at Placerita, AZ. Since this picture was taken, the roof reportedly has collapsed. There are different types of ghost t...

The earliest episodes of Indian conflicts in Yavapai Country were not recorded in newspapers at first. Quite simply, there weren't ...

Cynics say it was a memorial to a boondoggle. Locals say it was a memorial to Mayer's mining history. Unwittingly, it was also a memo...

The strategy of Native Americans during the Indian Wars was more nuanced than simply "collecting scalps." Their preferred meth...

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.  ...

There are at least 22 lost treasures of cash and gold waiting to be found in the Prescott area in Yavapai County. These could be catego...