Located on the corner of Gurley and Marina Streets in Prescott, the Hassayampa Inn is a four-story hotel that was built in 1927 as a destination for wealthy travelers looking to escape the summer heat in Phoenix. It remains one of Prescott’s busiest hotels, but there’s one guest who checked in who has yet to ...

Although a model of peace and quiet today, this town was once considered one of the worst in the Old West. Take the unfortunate demise of James Hale as an example. On Dec. 25, 1886, Hale was shot to death in front of a local saloon. The area newspaper called it “reckless gunfire,” but witnesses ...

PINAL MOUNTAINS -- Despite its name, Limburger Rock was, for many years, a popular gathering place in the Pinal Mountains. It received the aromatic title in 1910 during a stag party sponsored by an ice cream parlor in Globe.

Somewhere back in the hills of Pinal County, where mining once flourished and claim jumpers and robbers made a decent living, there's a place called Slinkard Springs. The exact location has been pretty much obscured by time and development, but the story behind its name remains intact.

Test your knowledge of Arizona’s political and legal history with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score. Who was the first Asian-American elected mayor of a major U.S. city? ...

Quite naturally, it was only a matter of time before disputes over boundaries of mining claims and real estate properties required the presence of the much-maligned frontier lawyer. Litigation became the single most lucrative, money making scheme among this frontier society dedicated to the principles of getting rich without working.

Have you heard of George Daves and Petra Edmunds? Legend has it these lovers took part in an attempted murder-suicide in front of the Buford House in Tombstone in the late 1880s. However, our friends at Paranormal Intuitive Investigations in Sierra Vista may have debunked the lore.

Not all of Arizona's lost treasures are mines. Somewhere near Happy Jack, a small lumber town between Flagstaff and Clints Well, lies a quarter million dollars in gold coin taken during a stage robbery. Back in 1879 a stagecoach carrying a secret shipment of gold from Santa Fe to Prescott, was waylaid...

The historic Pinal Cemetery, ca. 1880 to approximately 1920, served the residents of Pinal and the mill workers from Silver King Mine. Following the mine closure in 1888, Pinal was depopulated but the cemetery was still used by the residents of the new copper camp, Superior.