On May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery set off on a journey where no white man had ever been, forging into a land that was little more than blank...
The Corps of Discovery
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Marshall Trimble
The Saga of Pancho Villa
A bright orange glow spread across the eastern New Mexico horizon on the morning of March 9, 1916. The sleepy border town of Columbus was slowly...
A Windy About the Winds of Northern Arizona
The towns of Kingman, Seligman, Ash Fork, Winslow and Holbrook are spread out across northern Arizona along Route 66, today's Interstate 40. Each...
The Harvey Girls
“Will Rogers said: Fred Harvey kept the West supplied with food and wives.” Conditions of hash houses along railroad lines before dining cars and...
J.C. Ives Pays a Visit the Grand Canyon
Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives graduated from West Point in 1852 and the following year he was assigned to the storied Army Corps of Topographical...
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson’s most recognized photo was of a dapper-looking fellow wearing a derby hat, but photos can be deceiving. In the real West was the real...
The Case of the Vanishing Train Robbers
On the evening of April 27th, 1887 southern Arizona’s only passenger train, the Sunset Express, was making its run toward Tucson. The train was...
Bill Miner: The Saga of the Grey Fox
Ezra Allen Miner is a conundrum. Some say he was born in Onondaga, Michigan on December 27th, 1846, or maybe he was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky....
The West
Never in the history of the world has there been a place like the American West. The pristine uncharted land, its natural beauty, blessed with...
Little Big Andy
Probably the last time anyone called him “Little Andy” was at about three years of age. He was a big man not just in stature but in heart and soul....
Fred Fritz and the Grizzly
The rugged country along the Coronado Trail was the last refuge of Arizona’s Grizzly bears. A story is told about a camp cook who was charged by...
Tales of AZ Route 666: The Devil’s Highway
The Coronado Trail was named in 1926 for the Spanish explorer and conquistador, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who passed through the area in 1540 in...