What is a cowboy? Billy Murphy Las Cruces, New Mexico A cowboy is generally considered to be someone who tends cattle herds on North American...
What is a Cowboy?
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Marshall Trimble
Santa Claus, Arizona
On a stretch of arid desert northwest of Kingman arises what was perhaps the most unusual roadside attraction ever to grace the highways of...
How Many Indians Died at the 1876 Battle of The Little Big Horn?
How many Indians died at the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn? Vanessa Grandos Scottsdale, Arizona The best number to go by is 31 warriors plus 10...
A Merry Christmas at Ft. Yuma
A little-known Christmas story is that of the time when the generous folks at Nogales, Arizona “adjusted” the Mexican border to accommodate some...
Tuffy and Jake Meet Santa Claus
Adapted from a story told by Charles Russell in Trails Plowed Under. Everybody knows Charles M. Russell was one of America’s greatest cowboy artists...
Mack Hughes’ Cowboy Christmas
A few years ago an old friend, the late Stella Hughes, wrote a book, Hashknife Cowboy, about her husband Mack’s days working for the historic...
The Man Who Killed Santa Claus
The Great Depression was in full bloom and hard times had fallen on the rural communities of Tempe and Mesa, Arizona that Christmas of 1932. It was...
Fleming Parker’s Last Request
George Ruffner and Fleming Parker had cowboyed together over on the Agua Fria River in their younger days. As time went by they went their separate...
Gold Fever
A story is told of a farmer in a Midwest American town who heard a circus with an elephant was coming to a nearby town. He wanted to see the...
The Christmas Mine
In 1880 rich deposits of gold were found in the Dripping Springs Mountains south of Globe by Dr. James Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge Mining...
Flame Delhi
On the morning of April 16th, 1912 headlines across America told the story of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. On its maiden voyage across the...
Cactus Derbies
It wasn’t long after the first railroads crossed Arizona in the 1880s and many people in the territory had yet to take a ride on an iron horse when...