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The morning of April 15, 1862, broke clear and cool over the stark granite peak of Picacho Pass, halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. Union cavalry Captain William P. Calloway led.....
The morning of April 6, 1929, started like any other in the sleepy border town of Naco, Arizona—until the drone of airplane engines filled the desert sky. Within moments, explosions.....
In the depths of the Great Depression, as dust storms ravaged the heartland and breadlines stretched through American cities, Arizona’s governor declared war on the state of California. This wasn’t.....
In the pre-dawn darkness of July 26, 1953, a convoy of over 100 police vehicles descended upon the remote desert community of Short Creek, Arizona. Armed officers, social workers, and.....
In the scorching summer of 1915, a Model T Ford lurched to a stop in the middle of the Imperial Sand Dunes, its wheels buried axle-deep in the shifting sands......
Standing at the border crossing in Nogales today, watching thousands of people move between Arizona and Sonora, it’s hard to imagine that just 175 years ago, this entire region was.....
On the morning of April 30, 1871, as the first light touched the peaks of the Santa Catalina Mountains, a force of 146 men—Tohono O’odham warriors, Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans from.....
On a September morning in 1891, ten-year-old Carlos Montezuma arrived at a sprawling compound on the outskirts of Phoenix, one of the first students at the newly opened Phoenix Indian.....
Deep beneath the Whetstone Mountains of southeastern Arizona lies a secret that stayed hidden from human eyes for nearly 200,000 years. In November 1974, two young cave explorers squeezed through.....
In the summer of 1863, as Civil War battles raged across the American South, a wagon train of federal officials bounced along the dusty trails toward a remote military outpost.....
In 1912, the same year Arizona achieved statehood, a film crew from the New York Motion Picture Company rolled into Tucson with cameras, costumes, and a script for “The Sheriff’s.....
In the scorching summer of 1942, a convoy of M3 Stuart tanks churned across the Sonoran Desert near Yuma, their treads crushing brittlebush and palo verde branches as temperatures soared.....
In the scorching summer of 1861, as the American Civil War erupted across the nation, a group of Southern sympathizers gathered in a dusty adobe building in Mesilla, New Mexico.....
In the pre-dawn hours along the Colorado River, as the desert sky transforms from indigo to amber, a radio signal pulses across the Colorado River Indian Reservation. “Good morning, relatives,”.....
Deep beneath the Arizona desert, 103 feet below ground, sat instruments of unimaginable destruction that for 25 years stood ready to launch at a moment’s notice. The Titan II Intercontinental.....
In the scorching Arizona desert, far from any town or city, thousands of American citizens once lived behind barbed wire fences, their only crime being their Japanese ancestry. Between 1942.....
In the spring of 1857, a peculiar caravan made its way across the dusty trails of the American Southwest. Leading the procession wasn’t a typical frontier scout or cavalry officer,.....
In the summer of 1887, eleven-year-old Hopi girl Polingaysi Qöyawayma watched from the mesa as government agents approached her village. Her mother quickly hid her beneath corn husks in their.....