Photograph by Elisabeth Brentano
A Mother-Daughter Adventure in Madera Canyon
Our rental car labored through the silty, gray mud, occasionally sliding backward and spraying chunks of dirt behind us. I sat rigidly in the back seat, wide-eyed and confused. I was 8, and not only…
Photographs: Schnebly Family Collection
A Woman by the Name of Sedona
When Amanda Miller looked down at her newborn daughter in 1877 and pronounced her to be named Sedona, she had no idea she had just coined an iconic word that would make marketers swoon, even into the…
Photograph by Mark Boisclair
Quite Wright
As I catch my first glimpse of the David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, one word pops into my head: playful. It doesn’t seem like that could be the proper reaction to a…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Ba'cho
This story ran in Arizona Highways' August 2015 issue. For the White Mountain Apache Tribe, history lives in the spoken word. Significant events from the past, cultural practices and spiritual…
Photograph by David Wallace
Foraging Ahead
Like many 13-year-old girls, Margie Bendle is fond of crafts. She likes to make bracelets and anklets out of string. She also enjoys playing basketball. And she prefers math over English. And there’…
Photograph by David Zickl
Down on the Farm
As a little girl, Ramona Button followed her father, Francisco, as he planted and harvested traditional crops on their family’s 10-acre allotment near Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Community. The…
Photograph by David Wallace
Returning to Their Roots
Lilian Hill will never forget the first time she walked into a grocery store. She was 8 years old and had traveled from Second Mesa, on Hopi Tribe land, to visit her grandmother who lived in…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
The Mexican Food Capital of the World and Elsewhere
The best breakfast I have eaten in my seven decades occurred one morning in 1985 in a home kitchen in Oracle, a tiny town on the back side of the Santa Catalina Mountains from Tucson. An elfin…