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Arizona has a long tradition of ranching. Even before statehood in 1912, cattle operations were a majorelement of the Territorial economy, and today, many ranching traditions remain — from cowboys eating around a fire on an open plain to families gathering around a communal table. 

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A young man points south toward the only cloud floating in a deep blue October sky. We are part of a group of six with reservations to hike through Upper Antelope Canyon, east of Page, Arizona. We know that cloud. We call it El Nubé. El Nubé comes to the desert valley we call home, softly, innocently. We are not fooled. It can change quickly, and havoc results. 

“If it moves over there,” our guide from Navajo Country says, making a quarter-turn to his right, “a flood will come.” The innocent cloud we call El Nubé expands as it fills with water. It grows a white tail and turns gray, and into a killer. 

We ask the young man, whose name is Robert, how he knows that the fate of French tourists killed when they were flushed by a massive flood into this same canyon a decade before will not be our fate. 

He says he has always watched that cloud and that the People know. He means his “People” the Diné, or Navajo, at home in the Four Corners. 

In the fall, where we live, El Nubé has been known to drop through the gray, quilt-like ceiling after soft, female...

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A sudden spring storm looms over the sandstone formations of White Pocket, part of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument north of the Grand Canyon. By Suzanne Mathia

History, Nature & Culture

History

When you walk through downtown Gilbert today, it’s hard to imagine that this historic area used to be home to several grocery stores — including Liberty Market, whose...

Members of the Ong family are shown in an undated photo at Gilbert’s Sam Lee Grocery. GILBERT HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Nature

Known for their agility, cliff chipmunks (Tamias dorsalis) live along cliff walls and rocky outcroppings in Arizona’s mountainous regions. These members of the squirrel...

Cliff chipmunk posing on a rock and looking towards camera. By Bruce D. Taubert

Culture

Deborah Copenhaver Fellows of Sonoita, Arizona, is a horsewoman from stock that knows the essence of fillies well, because it is in her blood. Daughter of world champion...

Deborah Copenhaver Fellows looks off into the distance standing in tall grass with her horse a few steps away. By Joel Grimes

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Nestled in the heart of Northern Arizona, the town of Williams is a true hidden gem. Situated close to the Grand Canyon...

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