Stories Archive

  Jerry Jacka Photographer 1934–2017 Jerry Jacka’s parents drove west from Chicago in a Ford Model A in the spring of 1929,...

  Ray Manley Photographer 1921–2006 Cottonwood born and Verde Valley raised, Ray Manley is one of three Arizona natives, along...

  Larry Toschik Artist 1922–2012 Perfect Illustrations. That’s how we titled a June 2013 portfolio of the work of Larry Toschik...

  Carlos Elmer Photographer 1920–1993 It’s not quite the Ansel Adams Wilderness — a section of California’s Sierra Nevada that...

  Joyce Rockwood Muench Writer 1907–1982 One cloudy day in 1954, Joyce Rockwood Muench was dusting bookshelves when a single ray...

  Ted DeGrazia Artist 1909–1982 Then-Arizona Highways Editor Joe Stacey once wrote that had Mary Helen Carlson — the wife of...

  Allen C. Reed Photographer 1916–2009 Prolific. That was Allen C. Reed’s work for Arizona Highways. And, really, that’s an...

  Clara Lee (Fraps) Tanner Writer 1905–1997 “I think that the Southwest itself has something you can’t put your fingers on — it...