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Wearing a close-fitting fleece and jeans, Loop Rawlins (pictured) leans into the trunk of his sedan at Tucson’s White Stallion Ranch. He looks like any arriving guest, car packed neatly with what…
There’s no wrong way to spend time at the Grand Canyon. It is, after all, one of the world’s most famous natural wonders and the pride of the Grand Canyon State. The problem is that most people don’t…
The Navajos called them “Anasazi.” And, for seven decades, so did archaeologists. But, in the 1990s, a new generation of politically correct scholars proposed the term “Ancestral Puebloans,” and it…
When European immigrants ventured into the southwest corner of Arizona Territory in the late 19th century, they considered the Sonoran Desert a barren wasteland and saw little of value except the…
Tonto National Monument
Also a cultural melting pot, the site now known as Tonto National Monument was one of the most densely occupied areas for the Salado people, who lived in the Tonto Basin…
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Year Designated: 1972Area: 1.25 million acres (Arizona and Utah)Wilderness Acreage: None; however, 588,855 acres have been proposed as the Glen Canyon Wilderness…
The memories are starting to chip a little. Like nail polish on fingers that have plunged too many times into the dishwater or planted too many things into too-hard layers of earth. I do remember,…
In October 1775, as a nascent United States was breaking away from Great Britain on America’s East Coast, Juan Bautista de Anza and a party of some 240 Spanish colonists began a 1,200-mile journey…