Winged Victory

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 her resemblance to the Greek statue that bears the same name. The Territory of Arizona purchased this 600 lb. seventeen-foot-tall beauty in 1898 for $150 and when the capitol building was completed in 1901 she was placed atop the copper dome as a weather vane. During the early 1900s, cowboys, following a raucous night in the local saloons along Wa