Imagine the reaction in 1854 when a Cheyenne Chief, at a peace conference in Fort Laramie, suggested the U.S. Army give the tribe “1000 white women”...
What an Idea
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Jana Bommersbach
Cement Cowboy Nearly Dies
On the Ashes of My Campfire, This City is Built.” That inscription has graced a 2,000-pound, nearly eight-foot-tall cement statue of a cowboy for 86...
That Would be Mrs. Jerome, Thank You
Jerome, Arizona has a wild and wonderful history as a booming mining town in the early 1900s turned ghost town turned modern-day artist community....
Talk About a Mistake
As the Civil War broke out in 1861, you could draw a line in the East to separate the North from the South. You couldn't do that in the West, where...
Calamity, we Hardly Knew Ya
Her name isn't real and neither are most of the folklore images of her. Calamity...
A Dead Ringer for George Washington
That's how historian Grace Raymond Hebard described Chief Washakie of the Wyoming Shoshone Tribe. Her excellent biography notes the chief was so...
Bucking the Norm
“When I finally announced that I was going to become a doctor it broke the heart of all my friends and I was publicly disgraced. Women that I had...
Phoenix Disliked from the Start
If you read Unbreakable Dolls: True Stories of Courageous Women Who Helped Settle Northern Arizona you will learn that Arizona's capital city has...
A Pimp, Really?
When vigilantes lynched Ella Watson and James Averell on July 20, 1889, in Wyoming Territory, they excused themselves by renaming her “Cattle Kate”...
Arizona is in Love…
With Valentine's day. It's a little spooky how this one date has played such an important role in Arizona's history. It was Feb. 14, 1862 when the...
One Man’s Dream
When she was a seventh grader, Lori White knew Kenneth “Dobby” Lee as her school bus driver in Alliance, Nebraska. She later found out that he had...
His Skin Lives On
Big Nose George Parrott earned his name by his face, and his place as Wyoming Territory's most notorious outlaw by his deeds. But he lives on...