Countless lupines and a smattering of Mexican goldpoppies surround agaves, ocotillos and saguaro cactuses on the side of King’s Crown Peak, near Superior. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the peak was named by miners who felt the nearby Silver King Mine deserved a crown. By Paul Gill
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A sego lily displays its delicate bloom along the Barnhardt Trail, a hiking route in…
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
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Hard out of the small town of Harqua, Arizona, Flame Delhi was a natural. “Born in the heat of the alkali country,” as…
Sunrise illuminates a group of seven cranes as they fly in front of the full moon. By Jack Dykinga
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Ever since I began my career as a news photographer in Chicago in the 1960s, I’ve felt that photography is something I’…
Lindsey Egan (left) and Melissa Wright pose in a desert setting with the Superstition Mountains in the background. By Shondiin Mayor
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Melissa Wright saw her life branching out before her like a green fig tree. Mirroring a passage in Sylvia Plath’s The…
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Navajo Nation Joins Group Working to Prevent Lead Poisoning in Animals

Arizona's largest Indigenous tribe has joined an effort that aims to prevent scavenging animals from suffering lead…
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Grand Canyon, Ariz. — Grand Canyon Conservancy (GCC) is excited to welcome Stephen Hummel as the first Astronomer in…
A spot near John Ford Point offers a dramatic view of the weathered buttes of Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation. | Jerry Jacka
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Photographs by Jerry D. Jacka

One of Jacka’s favorite Arizona spots was Coal Mine Canyon, southeast of Tuba City on the Navajo Nation. “Each time I…
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.
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