You wouldn’t think that movie director Peter Bogdanovich and rock star Tom Petty would inspire a documentary film on the Pony Express of the 1860s,...
Rock ‘n’ Roll Pony Express?
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Old West Saviors
The Seeds of Navajo Soul
“Tears” from the album Spirit of a Woman by Radmilla Cody / Courtesy Canyon Records License #2010-067. All rights reserved. Visit Canyon Records to...
A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor
Some 30,000 pictures ago, Gil Gustavsen and Cheryl Stapleton thought they were going in a totally different direction. Both transplants to Arizona,...
One Basket at a Time
Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
One Basket at a Time
Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
The Invisible Indian Tribe
Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a...
Depression-Era Treasure
In Phoenix, which means rebirth, the realization that history could be found deep beneath the Arizona dirt came when what is now America’s fifth...
Digging Up San Jacinto
All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place...
Sacred Ground
Ernest Marquez can remember back eight decades of joyfully playing in his family’s cemetery. “I remember looking at the old wooden statue of San...
The “New” Old Ancestors
For almost 80 years, archaeologists were pretty sure how and when the first humans came to the New World. A 1932 excavation of a prehistoric village...
Defender of the Black Hills
If Charmaine White Face has her way - and the international recognition she’s already gotten says she’s on that road - the Black Hills of South...
The Apache Cupid
It sounds so romantic: An Apache violin is meant to lure a young woman to the young man playing it. This courtship tool, most effective in the...