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Arizona’s ghost towns are time capsules—mining camps that boomed and busted, railroad sidings that faded, and desert settlements that couldn’t outlast water shortages, economic shifts, or changing routes. Some are.....
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 Lieutenant James Barrett led his.....
The morning of April 2, 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 force of 102 law officers and National Guard soldiers descended upon the remote desert community of Short Creek, Arizona. Armed officers,.....
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.....
In 1891, the first students arrived at the newly opened Phoenix Indian School on the outskirts of Phoenix. Their arrival would mark the beginning of a complex legacy that still.....
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, director Romaine Fielding of the Lubin Manufacturing Company brought his film crew to the old streets of Tucson. The rugged Sonoran Desert.....
In the spring of 1942, Major General George S. Patton Jr. arrived in the desert to organize what became the Desert Training Center, often described as the largest military training.....
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.....
Deep beneath the Arizona desert sat instruments of unimaginable destruction that for about 21 years stood ready to launch at a moment’s notice. The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs).....
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 summer 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,.....
Beginning in the 1880s, thousands of Indigenous children across Arizona were forcibly removed from their families and sent to institutions designed to “kill the Indian, save the man”—a phrase coined.....