The White Spar Road is the portion of Arizona State Route 89 that is located within the boundaries of the Prescott National Forest.  And f...

The northbound Santa Fe passenger train No. 42 left Phoenix at 6:10 p.m. on March 7, 1924, heading toward Prescott. Little did they know tha...

Henry Wickenburg In 1870, Wickenburg was a young, booming town. Founded in 1863, it wasn’t officially incorporated until 1909. The boom was ...

In 1970, Prescott, Arizona, was still a small town. According to the Census Bureau, the population that year was 13,631--an increase of 770 ...

Many lost treasure stories are based on lore and campfire stories. This one is based on newspaper accounts of a tragedy.

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

“Yesterdays in Prescott are memorable for their mud, their amiable let-it-alone [attitude] and their slow fight to weld public opinion ...

When it comes to stage robberies in Yavapai County, the road from Prescott to Wickenburg may have had the most infamous heists, but the Ol...

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

When it first opened on August 1st, 1920, it was declared "Yavapai's Greatest Attraction." (*1) "Members of the N...

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