Summer sunlight pours into Marble Canyon, the upstream portion of Grand Canyon National Park, as the Colorado River flows over rocks. This spot is 41 miles downstream from Lees Ferry, considered the start of the Canyon’s 277-mile course. By Gary Ladd
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Below The Rim

Even the Grand Canyon has an edge. Made of limestone and solid to the touch, the edge lies just beyond the aspen groves…
Three Turkey Ruin, in Canyon de Chelly National Monument on the Navajo Indian Reservation, is one of many Northeastern Arizona cliff dwellings once inhabited by the Anasazi (or the Ancestral Puebloans, if you prefer). By Dawn Kish
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He Still Calls Them ‘Anasazi’

Starting in the 1870s, the explorers and anthropologists who stumbled upon their enigmatic ruins called them “the Cliff…
Illustration of young barfeooted boy on horse guiding cattle through a wash. By Chris Gall
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One Gillette

In the year 1938, Roy Adams, Herb Cunningham and Wirt Bowman were partners with Viv Brown in the ABC Cattle Co. of…
Photograph by Suzanne Mathia
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Best Picture 2024

Grand Prize Stan Rose This wintry photograph, made in an aspen grove near Arizona…
An unidentified man poses in a cement plant at the site of Theodore Roosevelt Dam in a Walter J. Lubken photo from March 1905. The dam was completed six years later, creating Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
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The Dam Photographer

Countless American photographers could be considered really famous — Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Annie Leibowitz and…
Elizabeth Compton Hegemann poses with two kachina plaques, one completed and one in progress, at the Hopi village of Oraibi in 1927. | Elizabeth Compton Hegemann
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Towering Figure

During their brief marriage in the 1920s, writer and photographer Elizabeth Compton Hegemann and her husband, Michael…
Night sky viewed through narrow walls of a slo canyon along the Colorado River in the GrandCanyon. By Dawn Kish
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Dawn Kish: This Is My Story

The first time I slept under the stars in Blacktail Canyon — a slot canyon at Mile 120 of the Colorado River in the…
James Porter pictured in a doorway at Terra Farm and Manor. By Jill Richards
Around Arizona

Terra Farm and Manor

As we drive past a metal gate and make our way up a rugged dirt road, acclaimed chef James Porter (pictured) can hardly…