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...

I get hoarse after eating strong horseradish, but Henry Scammell felt otherwise. “Horseradish will afford instantaneous relief in most obstinate...

April marked the 35th anniversary of CBS’s airing of Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. The now-classic Western television movie set ratings records, had...

John C. Holgate died first, pistol in hand, leading his men down a smoke-filled mining shaft. J. Marion More was gunned down in the streets of...

In the mid-19th century, an industrializing and expanding republic presented innumerable opportunities for artistes with the appropriate combination...

The two riders pounded the trails and roads of eastern Utah on that late April afternoon in 1897. They kept up a quick pace—had to, since they were...

I know British soldiers wore pith helmets in Africa and India, but why did Mexican Revolution Gen. Pancho Villa wear one? John Wagner Phoenix,...

What is the legend of El Tiradito? Vanessa Keller Scottsdale, Arizona El Tiradito (The Outcast) is in Barrio Viejo in Tucson, Arizona, and is...