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
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
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
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
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
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
In the summer of 1871, Army scout Al Sieber stood atop a rocky outcrop in the Superstition Mountains, scanning the horizon for smoke signals that