Joseph “Mack” Axford was a colorful character of Arizona. In the late 1890s, he worked the WS Ranch near Tucson with Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay...
Mack Makes His Mark The Arizonan lived a long and fascinating life.
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Arizona
Tombstone, Arizona
The frontier town toughs out its latest business bust.
The Wigwam Was The Place To Be The Winslow, Arizona saloon was pretty lively.
The Wigwam Saloon in Winslow, Arizona proved to be good and bad for a local lawman. In April 1905, Navajo County Deputy Pete Pemberton took out...
What History Has Taught Me: Jana Bommersbach
Journalist, Historian, Novelist
That’s No Lady An outlaw in disguise revealed the gold.
The Red Jack Gang stopped a stage near Riverside, Arizona Territory, on August 10, 1883. The Wells Fargo man denied the coach had any gold. But a...
The Cartwright Cattle Company Most, when they hear the name, Cartwright Ranch, Pa, Little Joe and Hoss immediately come to mind but out in Cave Creek, Arizona the folks all know you’re talking about the real Cartwright Ranch, located just a few miles north of town...
Most, when they hear the name, Cartwright Ranch, Pa, Little Joe and Hoss immediately come to mind but out in Cave Creek, Arizona the folks all know...
Eat! Drink! Sleep!
Western historic hotels and saloons offer guests a chance to experience the Old West with all the conveniences of the modern day.
On the Road Again
Historical sites, stunning landscapes, welcoming small towns and outdoor adventures await the intrepid Western traveler.
Strike it Rich
A circle tour of Arizona leads to Old West adventures for the whole family.
A Long Walk Arizona in those days was separated from ‘God’s Country’ by a space of 1,500 miles, without a railroad…
In those halcyon days before the coming of the railroads especially to remote areas like Arizona, which didn’t have a railroad until the early...
Johnson Canyon Johnson Canyon was blessed or cursed with a stretch of extreme hard basalt rock that required blasting a way through and building the tunnel.
Johnson Canyon, located between Williams and Ash Fork, Arizona on the Santa Fe Railroad (Nee) Atlantic and Pacific RR turned out to be the most...
The Day The Rails Reached Phoenix The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running through Phoenix...
The two transcontinental railroad lines across Arizona along the 32nd and 35th Parallels were completed by 1883 but there was still no line running...