In October 1849, a trader named James White, his wife Ann and their infant daughter were traveling on the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico when they...

What...is...history?” asked French Revolution leader Napoléon Bonaparte. “A fable agreed upon.” He went on to state, “...you will not find two...

The first “home sweet home” for many early pioneers was a soddie—a house built from two-feet-thick “bricks of earth,” cut from the prairie sod The...

Bitter Creek Newcomb and Charley Pierce learned the hard way about being careful where they lay their heads. On May 2, 1895, the Doolin Gang members...

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...