Flame Delhi, shown during his time with the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals, didn’t last long in Major League Baseball. But his one appearance — with the Chicago White Sox in 1912 — did make him the first Arizona native to reach the big leagues. ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEITH WHITNEY
Down In Flames
Hard out of the small town of Harqua, Arizona, Flame Delhi was a natural. “Born in the heat of the alkali country,” as one newspaper rhapsodized, Delhi stood over 6 feet tall and weighed in at a…
Superstition Mountain is the title of this painting by David Swing, depicting the iconic mountain with a foreground of a dirt road through desert landscape dotted by saguaros.
The Nature Of An Artist
CORONADO TRAIL   LAKE MEAD   THE NATURAL BRIDGE   Cochise Head…
Students, teachers and other staff at a federal Indian boarding school in the Kingman area pose for a photo around 1900. | University of Southern California DIGITAL LIBRARY, California Historical Society Collection
Painful Lessons
The only things my mother heard were the sounds of children’s cries, whimpers and soft footsteps as they fled into the night and she hid in fear beneath a thin, unfamiliar white blanket. Reduced to a…
The gas-powered riverboat Aztec passes through a movable bridge at Yuma in 1902. The Aztec moved cargo on the Colorado River between Yuma and Needles, California, until 1905, when a severe sandstorm caused it to wreck a few miles downstream from Needles. | THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
Rollin' On The River
Behind the moored steamboat Gila, a bridge used by the Southern Pacific Railroad spans the Colorado River at Yuma in a photo from the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the…
Clyde Tombaugh peers through a 6-inch telescope at the University of Kansas, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. This photo was made in 1936, six years after Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. | New Mexico State University
Staring Into Space
Looking through a hand magnifier, Clyde Tombaugh could barely see the stars on the image in front of him at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. “My hand was shaking,” he later told his biographer. “I was…
Described by some as eccentric, Wilhelm Smith had connections to many better-known figures in the history of the American Southwest. | SHARLOT HALL MUSEUM
She’s a Relative Unknown
Sedona’s newest park honors the city’s history, and one of the city’s oldest buildings is its focus. But just beyond the borders of Ranger Station Park on Brewer Road stands a reminder of a lesser-…
Arizona Highways Policy on Generative AI
Arizona Highways does not publish words, images or other content created or edited, in whole or in part, by generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT. While we recognize that…
The aurora borealis fills the night sky over the Grand Canyon in a view from Desert View Watchtower, on the East Rim, in October 2024. Far below the rim, the Colorado River mirrors the red hues of the northern lights. | Rich Rudow
Red Sky At Night, Photographer's Delight
Galileo named the aurora borealis, or the northern lights, in the early 17th century, honoring Aurora, Roman goddess of the dawn, and Boreas, Greek god of the cold north wind. In the Southern…