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Dream town: Roxaboxen, Arizona
Roxaboxen Mayor and Historian Marian Doan History is not only about politicians and military officers, and not just researched and transcribed in musty archives by squinty-eyed old men. Around 1917, […]
Cowboy Up
Cowboys in a picturesque setting somewhere in Graham County around 1890. Just a few years ago, cowboys could be seen wandering the streets of Arizona on a regular basis in […]
Charleston: Tougher than Tombstone≠
J.W. Swart’s Saloon in Charleston “If a corpse had a gun on him and the fatal shot came from the front, you didn’t look for the killer.” Such was one […]
Consolidated National Bank
Consolidated National Bank building, Tucson, 1929. “Ripping off the roof early this morning, workmen commenced demolition of the former home of the Consolidated National Bank,” penned the Arizona Daily Star […]
Museum of Northern Arizona turns 80
A Hopi demonstrator at the Hopi Craftsman Exhibition, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. Flagstaff’s internationally recognized Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) has the phenomenal distinction of reaching its 80th birthday […]
The ‘Mother of Arizona’
Gov. George W. P. Hunt called Josephine Brawley Hughes the “Mother of Arizona.” Gov. George W. P. Hunt called Josephine Brawley Hughes “the Mother of Arizona.” She fought for women’s […]
Arizona’s Liberty Bell
The Arizona Liberty Bell in front of the state Capitol prior to remounting. After three years of renovation, the Arizona Liberty Bell is home in the state Capitol courtyard between […]
‘Here we shall plant the tree of research’
Fort Valley Experimental Forest headquarters celebrates a century
The ‘ugliest man in Arizona’
John C. Phillips John C. Phillips was elected governor of Arizona on the coattails of the presidential election landslide of Herbert Hoover in 1928. He was the ninth governor, but […]
Coconino County’s hidden treasure
Fort Valley Cultural Park’s historic Art Barn “Tear down the horse stalls. Sell the manure. Clean out the junk—50 years of it,” wrote Paul Luellig in the Arizona Daily Sun […]
Al Sieber
Al Sieber pictured in the late 1880s. When the great scout, Al Sieber, was killed in a construction accident near Roosevelt Dam, a headline read: “Famous scout who escaped a […]
Howling of the wolves
On Dec. 8, 1846, just west of present-day Douglas, Elisha Smith died in the wilderness. We may read the details 162 years later in dozens of personal journals because Smith […]
