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Sabino Canyon’s spell-bound visitors
School teachers enjoy a picnic at Sabino Canyon in 1907 Nestled in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains seven miles northeast of Tucson, Sabino Canyon has been a popular […]
Novice Politicos
Edward J. Jackson, leaning into the touring car with his elbow propped on the door in this 1920s photo, was a mining entrepreneur and unsuccessful political candidate. Posters promoting a […]
Documenting a century of change
An early photographer at Fort Valley Experimental Forest in northern Arizona. The original purpose of the U.S. Forest Service Fort Valley Experimental Forest (FVEF) near Flagstaff was to study how […]
A life in ‘magical’ Magma
Beginning in 1955, miner Onofre Tafoya spent 37 years working in the Magma Mine near San Manuel. Getting a job as a hard-rock miner at the age of 26 was […]
McCauley’s Mascot
A few buildings mark the alleged Mascot town site. Never did a town of 5,000 — Thomas McCauley’s immodest and boastful projection to investors — materialize. If Thomas N. McCauley […]
Flagstaff’s Historic Homestead
A wintry view of the McMillan Homestead near Flagstaff. Travelers along Highway 180 north of Flagstaff often notice a lovely two-story home located on the grounds of the Museum of […]
Hum Dinger
Known as the “Cannon Ball,” “Blue Streak” or possibly even “Hum Dinger,” the pictured vehicle suffered a This World War I vintage touring car of unknown make had interchangeable nicknames: […]
Fortuna
Fortuna was a typical boom town sporting a cluster of clapboard dwellings, false-fronted business establishments and saloons, of course. Irony exists in the fact that after 1849, countless gold-seekers rushing […]
Tombstone’s Lady of the Rose
Ethel Robertson Macia, at age two. The Arcade Inn, one of the first adobe buildings constructed in Tombstone, was originally built merely to serve as an office and a boarding […]
Earthquake!
Tombstone doctor George Goodfellow stumbled upon plate tectonics – before it was fashionable. James Parker, a young lieutenant billeted at Fort Huachuca, chose the afternoon of May 3, 1887, to […]
Disenchanted Traveler
John Plesent Gray John Plesent Gray was a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California at Berkeley when he purchased a $98 one-way ticket on the Southern Pacific Railroad to […]
Frank Luke, Jr.
Frank Luke, Jr. practices his machine gun skills in this undated U.S. Air Force photo. On the day of the dedication of the Frank Luke, Jr. statue on the east […]
