Stories Archive

Editor’s Note: In July 1948, Wayne Davis made his debut in Arizona Highways. In the decades since, we’ve published hundreds of his beautiful...

Wally Brown isn’t sure when he was born. Not exactly, anyway. But it happened after the last Enemy Way ceremony of the year. The ceremony, one of...

A young man points south toward the only cloud floating in a deep blue October sky. We are part of a group of six with reservations to hike through...

Deborah Copenhaver Fellows of Sonoita, Arizona, is a horsewoman from stock that knows the essence of fillies well, because it is in her blood....

Arizona has a long tradition of ranching. Even before statehood in 1912, cattle operations were a majorelement of the Territorial economy, and today...

Josiah Austin stands at the edge of a nameless rivulet on his ranch in the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains. He points south. “You see those?”...

Annika Cunningham moves the remuda through Schoolhouse Pasture at the X Diamond Ranch, near Greer. The remuda is the herd of horses from which...

Nine times out of 10, Thanksgiving in Northern Arizona will come nosing ahead of a storm like an old lead cow going to water. A solid front of gray...