Local History - Cochise County

Editor's Note. Karen Weston Gonzales is a talented free lance writer. I first read her story about Southern Arizona pioneer,...

The Cochise Hotel It was a Sunday in mid-September when Ms. Karen and I left our home in the Tucson...

Part II - This is the second in a series on the great Chiricahua Chief, Cochise, and his part in...

Part I - This is the first of a series on the great Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise, and his part...

In the late 1870s, to engineer the official Indian policy of “concentration”, the United States government forced Victorio and his...

William C. Greene was born in Wisconsin in 1852 (or maybe 53). Greene spent his most productive years in Sonora,...

"Texas" John Slaughter, Sheriff of Cochise County from 1886 to 1990. “Texas” John Slaughter was the sheriff who cleaned up...

The story of the Coronado Expeditions is one of bravery, perseverance, high adventure, faith, and incredible greed. Between hiking trails...

More than a hundred years ago, Kentucky Camp was the headquarters for the Santa Rita Water & Mining Company, which...

Cochise Stronghold Stronghold: A place fortified against attack. Such a place is Cochise Stronghold, a series of natural rock formations...