Charles Hopkins is a forgotten name nowadays, but in early 1914 he was known far and wide in the Pacific Northwest. He’d just done a four year stint...

A century or so ago, railroad boosters and marketers discovered Arizona’s signature cactus, the saguaro, as the perfect symbol of the Southwest. The...

She’s been referred to as the Goddess of Victory, Statue of Justice, and Madame de Vaunte but Arizonans prefer to call her Winged Victory because of...

That was Ann Eliza Webb, the 19th wife of Brigham Young. She did the unthinkable and divorcing the head of the Mormon Church—a “living prophet” who...

  Frenchman Philippe Régis de Trobriand settled in New York City in the 1840s and served with the Union Army during the Civil War. The Army...

Salient rows of marble grace the 114 acres of the Los Angeles National Cemetery in the Westwood neighborhood of the sprawling metro area of Southern...

Rules for Inmates: You will not be allowed to converse with each other on any subject whatever. Conversation is allowed only when you work out of...

The McCarty Gang rued the day they ran into Ray Simpson on September 7, 1893. They’d tried to rob a bank in Delta, Colorado—killed banker Andrew...

Thirsty travelers on the Oregon Trail had to have fallen down on their knees and thanked the Lord above when they reached the naturally carbonated...

One of the Old West’s zaniest train robberies occurred near the Arizona town Willcox on the evening of September 9th, 1899 when constable Burt...

Got to go tomahawk Kaiser Bill!” These words from the WWI ditty about fighting against Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Germany, sung as an American Indian by...

Buffalo are still roaming the American West—even in Arizona. Outside the buffalo wildlife ranges in Raymond, east of Flagstaff, and House Rock, east...