Illustration of young barfeooted boy on horse guiding cattle through a wash. By Chris Gall
In Depth

One Gillette

In the year 1938, Roy Adams, Herb Cunningham and Wirt Bowman were partners with Viv Brown in the ABC Cattle Co. of Nogales. Viv Brown was my pappy. I...
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 Snowbowl in the San Francisco Peaks, evokes a feeling of...
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 Dorothea Lange are just a few of...
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 Harrison, lived on the South...
The Verde River flows past the imposing namesakes of the White Cliffs Trail. By Laurence Parent
Hiking

White Cliffs Trail

Like the White Cliffs of Dover, the white cliffs of the Verde Valley are rooted in a history that goes back millions of years. Our local cliffs,...
A sprawling view of the Grand Canyon is the reward at the end of the long drive to Crazy Jug Point. By Paul Gill
Scenic Drives

Crazy Jug Point

When you’re trekking to some attractions on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim — from Bright Angel Point, an easy quarter-mile walk from Grand Canyon Lodge...
Interior of room at Origins B&B, showing bath, vanity and sleeping areas. By Laurence Parent
Lodging

Origins Bed and Breakfast

You don’t often need an umbrella in the Verde Valley, but when you do, you really do — especially during a monsoon storm. Karen Saelens and Jeff Raible, who own and operate Origins Bed and Breakfast...
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 Grand Canyon — was in 1998, when...