Cowboys stand in front of a ranch building in this black and white photograph

The Secret World of Vaqueros

 Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West recently announced the upcoming opening of Vaqueros de la Cruz del Diablo/...
Postcard: Susan Arreola Postcard Collection, Arizona Room, Phoenix Public Library
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Greetings From Phoenix

From an East Camelback Road Airbnb, I drive to Van Buren Street in Phoenix to see Douglas Towne, a writer and preservationist with the Society for...
Photograph by Claire Curran
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We've Been Down This Road Before

Laurence Parent   Claire Curran   Larry Lindahl   Derek von Briesen   Joel Hazelton...
Photo: ARIZONA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
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A Long Strange Trip

Upon haphazardly throwing a bedroll, thermos, shovel and revolver into a Chrysler roadster named Betsy, author Hoffman Birney set off on an early...
Photograph by Joel Hazelton
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Making A Beeline

The southernmost miles of the Beeline Highway are uninspiring. A miasma of power lines intersect overhead. An active mining operation hacks into the...
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Hiking

Peavine Trail

Like so many small-town businessmen in the Wild West, the founding fathers of Prescott figured the road to success was a railroad. The first was the...
Photograph by A O Tucker
Scenic Drives

State Route 78

State Route 78 is Scarlett Johansson before Lost in Translation. Or, if you prefer, Ryan Gosling before The Notebook. That tortured metaphor is a...
Photograph by Jack Jordan
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Q&A: Jack Jordan

JK: What is Camp Courage, and how did you get involved? JJ: Camp Courage is the Arizona Burn Foundation’s annual camp in the Prescott area for...