In 1906, novelist Zane Grey visited the Arizona Territory for the first time. The Southwestern landscape fired his imagination; after a few return...
Call of the Canyon
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Arizona’s Top 10 Paintings
If some of the major early artists in the West—Catlin, Bodmer, Miller, Audubon, Bierstadt—had painted in Arizona, they would be on this list. But...
Hoop Dance Dynasty
Thanks to the pull of love, one of today’s most acclaimed hoop dancing families in the nation helped to revive the native dance that had all but...
Butch Cassidy Wannabe
Butch Cassidy is dead. William T. Phillips is dead. Yet the legend that the two men were one and the same still has not given up the ghost, despite...
The TopTen Must-Have Books On Arizona History
Your must-have books on Arizona history! 1. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes Written by...
Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State
The Maynard Dixon cover is not the only reason to love this new Arizona book. Jim Turner’s family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1951, to cure his...
Following Arizona’s Road to Statehood
It’s hard to believe, but it was here, off Interstate 40 at milepost 325—in the middle of nowhere—that Arizona’s road to statehood really began. I...
PC Trumps PRCA
At first glance, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo looks like any other rodeo. Well, that wine tent seems out of place, as do the pig races on...
Harvey’s Happy Girls
“There is never any sick among the travelers along the Santa Fe line on the eating houses. These are all owned and managed by Mr. Fred Harvey....”...
Fake or Real?
“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most...
10 for 10: Prescott, AZ
Touring our #1 Town of the year, Prescott, Arizona. 1. Hit the 1877 Palace Saloon on legendary Whiskey Row and belly up to the bar where Buckey...
Top 10 True Western Towns of 2012
True West Magazine’s annual award given to towns that have made an important contribution to preserving their pasts and to sharing their town’s...