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3 generations of photographers in the Old Pueblo
Buehman Studio pictured in the early 1880s. Henry Buehman sits behind a counter on the right. Arriving in Tucson seven years before the railroad, frontier photographer Henry Buehman captured the... […]
Ingleside
In the early 1900s, W. J. Murphy laid out a resort called Ingleside far from Phoenix. The area, roughly bounded by 56th Street, 64th Street, Thomas Road and Lafayette Boulevard... […]
Bob Burgunder, student-murderer
Judge Arthur T. LaPrade As former Arizona State Teachers College student Robert Burgunder, Jr. sat on death row in Florence, he commented, “There’s too much free speech in this country.... […]
Hotel Westward Ho
An early photo of the Hotel Westward Ho taken from the west along Fillmore Street. At the gala celebration for the opening of the newly constructed, $2.5 million ($29.6 million... […]
The Death of the Sheriff
In this 1890 photo of Arizona lawmen, William M. Breakenridge is pictured second from right. When Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sullivan died in office, a local paper editorialized “it is... […]
Gillespie Dam
A convoy of cars traverses the precarious apron of Gillespie Dam. Gillespie Dam was an extreme obstacle to travelers trying to go from Phoenix to Gila Bend and on to... […]
Winsor Castle to Pipe Springs
A 1925 photo of Pipe Springs. Located in the shadow of vermilion cliffs on the Kaibab Plateau, three miles south of Moccasin Spring and eight miles south of the Utah... […]
Ruined Raid on Short Creek
Arizona National Guard troops fed women and children following the 1953 raid on Short Creek. Prior to dawn on a summer morning in 1953, Arizona staged the largest police action... […]
San Diego, ‘Arizonia’
Gov. George W. P. Hunt at the Santa Fe station in San Diego in September 1917. The boundary of Arizona has long been a work in progress. When the United... […]
Olive Oatman
Olive Oatman Some 20 miles west of Gila Bend, along the Gila River, lays the grave of a bloody, early chapter in Arizona history. The Oatman massacre was a very... […]
Eva Lost Her Head
Eva Dugan, the only woman ever hanged at Florence. When asked about the execution of Eva Dugan, Florence prison warden Lorenzo Wright said he felt capital punishment should not be... […]
Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols
Edward Franklin Echols served as Pima County sheriff five times. Five-time Pima County Sheriff Edward Franklin Echols, born in Stockton, Texas, had little formal education. Echols, a giant of a... […]
