Few people realize it but the world’s first aerial combat took place near the Arizona-Mexican border. During frequent revolutions in Mexico during...
The Bombing of Naco
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Marshall Trimble
Do Westerns Accurately Show how Horses are Saddle Broken?
Do Westerns accurately show how horses are saddle broken? -Carl Justice Bluefield, West Virginia I heard an old cowboy say, “The trick to breaking a...
Entertainment and the Arts
Back in the days before radio, movies and television, lectures were a popular form of entertainment in Arizona communities. They ranged from...
Rocky Mountain Rails
The chance to get rich quick as a uniquely American article of faith was virtually born in the West. Almost since its beginning, America was the...
Jailhouse Rock
In the rough and tumble towns of early Arizona, churches, schools and jails were most conspicuous by their absence. Holbrook became the...
The Treacherous Murder of Captain Emmett Crawford
In January, 1902 when Tom Horn was being interrogated by U. S. Deputy Marshal Joe Lefors regarding the killing of young Willie Nickle he boasted...
Captain Burt Mossman
Arizona greeted the arrival of the 20th century like a frontier Jekyle and Hyde. The communities like Phoenix and Tucson were becoming cosmopolitan...
Kosterlitzky: The Mailed Fist of Mexico
Perhaps nowhere in the annals of the wild border countey was there a more improbable character than Emilio Kosterlitzky. The son of a Russian...
Ask the Marshall
Robert Garcia Phoenix, Arizona True. The blood ritual has been around for centuries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. It comes in many forms, but...
Branding Cattle: The XXX
The rangeland of Arizona had pretty strict ideas when it came to stealing livestock yet it can’t be denied that a lot of cow outfits got...
Uncle Jim’s Last Gunfight
The Old West was quickly fading from reality into myth by the mid-1920’s. Most of the old time gunfighters had gone on to their great reward and...
The Lost Adams Diggings
Somewhere out in these rugged mountains of eastern Arizona, just maybe lies the greatest lost mine of them all…the Lost Adams Diggings. Because of...