Jack Swilling is a name that goes almost unrecognized by Arizonans today. Much of what is known about him comes from tal…
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Buffallo Bill Busted He perfected the Wild West show, toured the world, got rich and then lost millions. What happened?
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a lucky man. From a hardscrabble youth that began in a log cabin in Iowa Territory, he g…
Edward Doheny
Daniel Day-Lewis, who recently announced his retirement from acting, won a Best Actor Oscar for 2007’s There Will Be Blo…
Lucky Cuss
The tall, lanky prospector brushed back his thick, matted, unkempt hair and looked out across a jumble of high mesa hill…
Angels Camp Gold Rush
One of the stranger gold strike stories comes from Angels Camp, California in 1856. Bennager Rasberry was squirrel hunti…
The Lost Belle McKeever Mine
Arizona historian James McClintock called the Lost Belle McKeever, “the richest gold ledge ever discovered in North Amer…
Rescuing Silver Strike History One foundation is keeping the Comstock Lode’s glittering history away from the bulldozer.
Talk about the mother lode. Imagine trying to preserve hundreds of projects in a 14,000-acre district—not only one of th…
There’s Copper in Them Thar Hills New Mexico and Arizona’s mining towns celebrate their glorious past.
Author Mike Anderson prefers talking about the legends who played at Warren Ballpark in Bisbee, Arizona—Connie Mack, Hon…
The Lucky Cuss Mine
The story of rags-to-riches prospector Ed Schieffelin and his Lucky Cuss Mine is one of Arizona’s greatest Horatio Algie…
Arizona’s Shangri La
When one imagines pristine Arizona’s dry, desolate, sun-baked deserts in the 1850s it’s difficult to picture any of it a…