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Old West

  • A narrow mountain road offers temporary relief for cattle and cowboys during a cattle drive to the White Mountains town of Alpine.

    COMMUNITY CATTLE DRIVE

    Nat McKelvey | Photographs by Roy Caples

  • A picturesque hillside cemetery is one of the highlights of dos cabezas, a southeastern arizona ghost town that's still home to a few residents. | Eirini Pajak

    ARIZONA GHOST TOWNS

    Philip Varney | Edited by Noah Austin | Photos by John Burcham and Eirini Pajak

  • Orme School students sit on a fence in the late 1930s. The girl in the center is Katie Orme, the sister of longtime school headmaster Charles Orme Jr. | COURTESY OF ORME SCHOOL

    READING, WRITING AND ... RANCHING

    Kathy Montgomery

  • THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

    Jeff Kida and Robert Stieve (Portfolio Editors)

  • A homestead belonging to Jim Thompson, one of Oak Creek Canyon’s early settlers, is shown in the 1910s. This was Thompson’s second homestead; his original one dated to the 1870s.

    WHAT A PLACE TO CALL HOME

    Kathy Montgomery | Photographs: Sedona Heritage Museum (except where noted)

  • When William Cornell Greene died in 1911 at age 58, he had only a few thousand dollars to his name — a precipitous fall for a man once worth $50 million. | Photos courtesy Terry Greene Sterling

    GRANDFATHER FIGURE

    Terry Greene Sterling

  • Winter visitors at the Silverbell Guest Ranch near Tucson take a trail ride amid tall saguaros beneath the Santa Catalina Mountains. The ranch was on Silverbell Road on the west side of present-day Interstate 10. In the late 1940s, it touted accommodations for 33 guests in adobe cottages during an operating season of November through April. The ranch was sold in the mid-1960s and had closed by 1970

    BACK AT THE RANCH

    Jeff Kida and Keith Whitney | Photographs: Arizona Historical Society

  • Men work at the Walnut Grove Dam site early in the dam’s construction. Once it was completed in 1888, the dam was 110 feet high.

    DAM SHAME

    Kathy Montgomery | Photographs: Arizona Historical Society

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