Photograph by Mark Boisclair
Quite Wright
As I catch my first glimpse of the David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, one word pops into my head: playful. It doesn’t seem like that could be the proper reaction to a…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Focused on the West
Jay Dusard will settle for the chile relleno, he supposes. The enchiladas he’s loved for years are no longer on the menu at the Gadsden Hotel’s lobby restaurant.  The hotel, it seems, is a little…
Photograph by David Zickl
Out of the Ordinary
I haven’t seen Eric Gueissaz in 16 years, but his is a face that you don’t soon forget. With clear blue eyes, an epic nose that knows no end and a bushy, drooping mustache extending across his cheeks…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
Learning the Ropes
 “Live bait.”  That’s what today’s training is called. More properly, “tethered rescue” — an advanced swift-water technique for rescuing unresponsive victims from whitewater situations. The rescuer…
Photograph by Tom Gamache
Two Men And A Truck
Checking in at Canyon de Chelly during a road trip through the Navajo Nation, I came to the line on the registration form asking for vehicle make and model.  “Orange Chevy Blazer,” I wrote, which,…
Photograph by Barry M. Goldwater
An Odyssey of the Green and Colorado
Our January 1941 cover featured one of Barry Goldwater’s images from the trip.Editor’s Note: “In 1940, I fulfilled a lifetime ambition,” Barry Goldwater wrote in his…
Photograph by Paul Gill
A Thing or Two About Saguaros
A soft, lovely, righteous landscape, everything in proper order — not my Arizona! Give me complexity and contradiction and the murmur of menace. Give me this 4-mile trek along a canyon bottom, easy…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
The Master’s Student
The student is a cerebral thinker, a philosopher, a visionary and a guy with a wry sense of humor. There’s no such thing as a brief conversation with him. Anecdotes, digressions, sidebars and…