The Tonto Basin Campaign 1872-1873
The governor of the Arizona Territory Anson P.K. Safford, representatives from Arizona and California appealed to President Ulysses S. Grant to bring Lt. Colonel George Crook to deal with the Yavapai and Apache problem in Arizona. Crook was selected over several...
What History Has Taught Me: Jeremy Rowe
Dr. Jeremy Rowe, Photographer, Historian, Scientist Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected and researched 19th- and early 20th-century photographs and wrote Arizona Photographers 1850-1920: A History and Directory, Arizona Real Photo Postcards: A History and Portfolio, Early...
Have Camera, Will Travel
The Fearless Mirror Makers of the Arizona Territory Arizona and the Southwest were virtually unknown in the middle of the 19th century. A few publications described travel across the area after the Mexican War and the area defined by the Gadsden Purchase as...
True Grit
Eighteen-year-old Susan Magoffin traveled West with her lady’s maid on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was an unlikely traveler when she set off on the Santa Fe Trail in June of 1846 with her husband, Samuel Magoffin, an experienced trader familiar with the...
True West March/April 2025
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