Tag: DesertHeritage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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