Jerry Ostwinkle offers a treat to a golden eagle approaching to perch on his arm. By Bruce D. Taubert
Around Arizona

Golden Eagle Hack Site

Beneath the Dragoon Mountains, down a primitive forest road lined with pistachio trees and scattered homesteads, sits…
A black and white image shows two people, a woman and a man, in shadow at a dining table within the interior of the Westward Ho hotel in downtown Phoenix. The pair looks out onto a busy swimming pool, surrounded by striped sunbrellas.

The Westward Ho: A Rich History

Bill Barry’s heart has always been in Phoenix — even during the rare times when the rest of him wasn’t. And Phoenix is…
This painterly photograph by Esther Henderson shows autumn foliage and cloudy blue skies reflected in a lake with mountains in the background..
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One Hundred Years: Photography

Norman G. Wallace Photographed: Early 1930s Norman G. Wallace wasn’t a photographer by…
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Arizona Highways Hall of Fame

                  Like every great magazine, Arizona Highways measures up because of the…
In this composite image, Hohokam rock art is illuminated against a Milky Way backdrop in Southern Arizona’s Picacho Mountains. The long swath of dots may symbolize the universe, along with other sky objects and serpents, which are thought to represent prayers being carried to the gods. | Frank Zullo
Culture

It Was a Dark Night...

Frank Zullo has a flair for the dramatic. He’s a photog­rapher by trade, which is pretty normal. But otherwise, he’s…
Unobstructed views stretch to the horizon from Monte Vista Peak in Southeastern Arizona’s Chiricahua Wilderness, where the highest point is 9,759 feet atop Chiricahua Peak. By David Muench
In Depth

Desert Islands

Some places have water. Whole parts of the country leak from every pore and crack in the ground. Think of New Hampshire…
A guest at the Tucson area’s Flying V Ranch examines a saguaro blossom during a guided horseback ride in the mid-20th century. Arizona Historical Society/Restoration by Richard Jackson
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Letters

June 1939Boulder Dam and Lake Mead In your April issue, we were particularly interested in the article Sailing on Lake…
Raymond Carlson (left) helps move furniture from our first office.
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Editor's Letter

It was a good year. Nineteen twenty-five. The Great Gatsby hit bookshelves, the Grand Ole Opry transmitted its first…