It was, at the time, the largest drug haul ever confiscated in Arizona—a take-down of “the center of the wholesale drug ring in Central Ar...

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

Prohibition went into effect on January 1, 1915, and Sheriff Joe Young was intent on making it stick. It was the middle of May when he made ...

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

It was late September 1932, and in a little more than a month, the United States would be choosing a new President. That man would be Gov...

"Dutch" John Berent was sitting in the defendant's seat in Superior Court. Across from him lay "273 bottles of beer; [a...

1918's "trial of the century" was the first murder case ever heard in today's Yavapai County Courthouse. Details of the ...

As this author researches newspapers for this blog, he finds some stories that are historic or interesting, but individually would be to...

A review. Knowing that Prescott's Whiskey Row is central to her history, it's surprising that it took until the 21st century fo...

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

The majority of the material for "Prescott, AZ History" is from reading weeks and weeks and months and months of old Prescott ne...

There is no doubt that, like many other Wild West towns, opium made its first appearance in Prescott with the influx of the Chinese popul...

In later January 1915, nothing much happened in Prescott according to the Journel Miner newspaper.  Heavy snows made all travel but tra...

As the New Year dawned in 1915, everyone knew the saloons of Whiskey Row would be closed, but realization quickly set in that Prescott...