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A Mexican goldpoppy (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana) waits to unfurl its colorful petals. In the background are the blooms of a lupine (genus Lupinus), a type of…
For more than four decades, Bob Markow documented the midcentury growth
of Metropolitan Phoenix. Although the “dean of Arizona photographers”
passed away in 2009, his…
On a cloudless August morning, the Hassayampa River Preserve’s namesake waterway runs crystal clear along its sandy course while summer tanagers, warblers and indigo buntings chatter in the lush…
If you were to make a film about pioneering Arizona aviator Ruth Reinhold, the movie would open somewhere high over the Mogollon Rim south of Winslow.
It’s March 1949, and Reinhold is behind the…
Chiricahua National Monument is known for its rhyolite hoodoos, stone pillars carved by natural processes over thousands of years. But just northwest of the monument’s visitors center are two stone…
Arizona's climate has made many outdoor sports popular over the state’s history. Some, such as baseball, are still popular; others, such as cricket and rugby, appeal primarily to niche audiences in…
The Custer Trail Ranch in the Dakota badlands is where it all began. In 1879, that outfit was the first to use the term “dude ranch.” In Arizona, there’s no definitive answer on which came first, but…
ADA BASS
1867-1951
Ada Diefendorf Bass, a classically trained pianist born in New York in 1867, didn’t choose to be the first Anglo woman to raise a family at the…