photographs courtesy of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Worshipping the Ground He Walked On
For the past four years, I’ve been following the footsteps of a ghost around the canyons of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Let me explain. In 1919, Charles L. Bernheimer, a cotton-goods…
Photograph by Rich Rudow
Parashant: It’s Easier Said Than Done
I have klatarismenophobia.  I hadn’t heard of it, either. But it turns out there’s a name for the irrational fear of getting a flat tire. For me, the roots aren’t hard to trace: In the summer of…
Photograph by John Burcham
Find Your Bismarck Lake
I had lunch the other day with an amateur photographer who talked about his frustrations with the craft. He’s been shooting for a long time — first with film, decades ago, and now with digital. He’s…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Sierra Bonita Ranch
Vast and flat, Southeastern Arizona’s Sulphur Springs Valley stretches for 65 miles, from its northwest section along the Galiuro and Piñaleno mountains to its southeast end just west of the…
Illustrations by Davide Bonazzi
The Exodus Trail
When the Yavapai and Tonto Apache tribes agreed in the early 1870s to give up the fight for their homeland and settle on the Rio Verde Reserve, they thought the worst was finally behind them.  As…
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Ancient Runes?
In the high-desert grasslands of South-eastern Arizona, a fertile wine country gives way to a small range of low-coned mountains near the tiny community of Elgin. It is here, in the unpretentious…
Photograph by Jill Richards
Ben's Bells Project
Be kind. The message is simple. And at the Ben’s Bells Project, it’s the driving force behind what the organization does every day.   “I think [it’s important] even more so now, because there is so…
Photograph by Derek von Briesen
Spanish Accent
Architecture is more than artful shelter. Architecture is culture, one of the most fundamental ways we express who we are. Architecture is our history, our mythology and our aspirations, all gathered…