In 1870, Chino Valley had a handful of ranches, plenty of open space, and occasional visits from fearsome Native Americans.

Iron King Mine Despite being isolated in the wilderness of Arizona, mining camps still enjoyed wondrous and touching Christmas celebrations ...

Consensus knows that Prescott gets snow, but it seldom lasts long—often melting away before evening. This was the reasoning behind the city ...

Prescott Journal-Miner, 2/9/1917 Pg. 6 Col. 5 They would usually appear in February after the harshest days of winter, and stayed until May....

It was 1984 on the Fain ranch near the headwaters of the Aqua Fria River when A. Jordan peered into a 13-foot deep arroyo and noticed a part...

Mingus Mountain Inn, 1949. In the 1920s, cars were far less dependable and, as a result, service stations were more numerous and spa...

"Ten years before the tents of Ft. Whipple were pitched in Chino Valley in 1864, the man for whom that post was named, with a small...

In this premier edition of Cowboy Escapades (formerly titled "Crazy Cowboy Tricks,) we look at true stories of bear roping and buffa...

By 1935, the slow-moving disaster had become genuinely alarming. "The possibility of the absolute destruction of the Prescott Nationa...

During the 19th century, every region of the country had its own home-spun remedies that depended on that area's herbage. Today, these...

The Arizona Toad Life is tenacious. But one frog,  found deep in a Prescott area mine, showed a tenacity to stay alive that many biologi...

For a rodent, they are undeniably cute. But to farmers and ranchers, they're a horrible pest. Where there are prairie dogs, agricultu...

Most locals have heard of the Mogollon Monster, but descriptions of exactly what kind of creature it might be have changed over the years...

Many Changes: On this 1905 map, Glassford Hill is labeled as "Bald Mountain."  The east-west railroad tracks just north are t...

   Anyone who has spent any length of time in the Prescott National Forest is well aware of the large population of whitetail deer tha...