Consumption is an early term for tuberculosis. The victims were called “lungers.” Consumption was a dreaded disease, contagious and was often fatal....
The arrival of Mormon colonists from Utah in 1876 heralded the first permanent Anglo-American settlements in northern Arizona. Even though cattle...
The building of the transcontinental railroad along the 32nd Parallel was a major milestone in Arizona history. Up to then the main means of...
Nathaniel “Texas Jack” Reed was an outlaw in the Oklahoma and Indian territories in the 1880s and ‘90s. He was involved a handful of train...
When discussing the James-Younger Gang at the ill-fated Northfield Bank Robbery, the question often comes up, “Who shot banker Joe Heywood, Frank or...
Charlie Le Flore (also Laflore) was captain of Indian police, deputy US marshal and special agent for the Missour, Kansas and Texas Railroad—all at...
The Anasazi are among the prehistoric peoples lived in The Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. They probably evolved from...
Dick Glass was a Creek freedman who ran roughshod across the Indian Territory in the 1880s. He waged a war against Cherokee authorities in a...
The Great Depression was in full bloom and hard times had fallen on the rural communities of Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa, Arizona that...
Barney Mason and Pat Garrett were tight. Mason rode posse with the lawman in his search for Billy the Kid. He was there when Tom O’Folliard and...
In Southeast Montana, experience the compelling history that shaped this one-of-a-kind region. Discover the epic stories of our past whether...