Sonoran Desert National Monument, east of Gila Bend in Southern Arizona, is home to an extensive forest of saguaros. | Paul Gill
Something to Call Our Own
They are legendary beings, part plant, part human, part god. On their coldest nights, sometimes the great arms of saguaros will sag and sway, and then slowly grow back into absurd, sometimes lewd…
Geno D’Ambrose (pictured) grew up around horses and worked for a saddle maker in Payson before opening his own business in Tombstone in the 1980s. By Steven Meckler
The Arizona Highways Tack Shop
Photograph by Paul MarkowBen’s Saddlery 174 N. Tegner Street, Wickenburg, benssaddlery.com When it opened on North Tegner Street in 1955, this celebrated Wickenburg…
Photograph of Bill Anton holding paint brushes in his studio by Joel Grimes
Painting From Life
Bill Anton is unsettled. On the first Saturday in August, a wildfire is burning near Kirkland. The Dragon Bravo Fire continues to rage on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and the echoes of the…
Vinson Picozzi, Keaton Jasso and Kaden Summer are shown at the X Diamond’s Voigt Allotment in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. By Scott Baxter
The Young’Uns
Ella Smith 10 X Ranch, northeast of Douglas Ella, her three siblings and their parents live on a Southeastern Arizona ranch. Here, Ella is pictured in front of a stock…
Black and white illustration by Ross Santee of a cattle drive with sparse vegetation.
Lost Pony Tracks
Editor’s Note: The celebration of our 100th anniversary continues with another wonderful piece from another wonderful writer. This month, it’s Ross Santee. “Ross thought like he drew, in black and…
Blue sky and colorful clouds reflect off Christmas Tree Lake in Arizona's White Mountains. By Jack Dykinga
Jack Dykinga: This Is My Story …
Many years ago, I was on assignment for National Geographic for a project about land conservation by Indigenous people. That assignment took me all over Apache lands in Arizona, and my shooting…
Our Lady of the Sierras includes a 75-foot-high Celtic cross on its grounds in the Huachuca Mountains. By Jeff Maltzman
Our Lady of the Sierras
R‌ising from an elevation of 5,300 feet in the Huachuca Mountains, and visible from State Route 92, is a curiosity that beckons observant motorists: a 75-foot Celtic cross. A steep, winding road…
A book cover shows Navajo "Gunshooter" in a sepia toned image. He's wearing tradition clothing and a large squash blossom necklace.
The Sons of Gunshooter
By the time the Coconino County sheriff and the county attorney reached the scene of Charles Hubbell’s death, the newspapers had published what authorities suspected: A trader was killed by Navajos…