This Christmas greeting first appeared in our December 1940 issue. It’s been updated here with our collection of covers from 2025.
Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours
Editor’s Note: This Christmas greeting first appeared in our December 1940 issue. It’s been updated here with our collection of covers from 2025.    
Photograph of Kevin Kibsey in studio setting holding a handful of paintbrushes is by Paul Markow.
Vaya Con Dios, Amigo
If Kevin Kibsey had been a character on Gunsmoke, he would have been Newly, the deputy marshal. The good-lookin’ good guy. Kevin wasn’t born on a ranch, ropin’ calves and breakin’ horses, but his…
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…
Joel H. works to build trust with Aries, a 1-month-old burro. | David Wallace
WHIP Into Shape
The burro in the round pen eyes her companions in the adjoining corral. Halter firmly in hand, a trainer guides the jenny past them, stopping to rub her neck generously before leading her a few more…
A dense population of lesser sandhill cranes prepares to take flight from their overnight roost at Twin Lakes, a pair of reservoirs in Willcox, at sunrise. By Jack Dykinga
Jack Headed South for the Annual Wingding
As with many bird species, sandhill cranes use aggression and displays of dominance to establish territorial boundaries, as seen in these two birds at Whitewater Draw,…
California condors, which once were nearly extinct, are among many bird species that call Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument home. | JACK DYKINGA
Native Species
S‌‌pace enough for silence, for sky, for yesterday, for tomorrow: Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects both cultural and natural worlds. In…