This Week’s Pic & Last Week’s Winner
This one should be easy enough even if it was taken in the winter. Send your best guess to: [email protected] with the heading: Where is this? LAST WEEK’S WINNER This is the site of the remains of the EP & SW Railroad at the park west of the downtown … Continue reading
Recipes & History: Santa Cruz Chile & Spice Co.
Jean England Neubauer set out to write a family cookbook. She ended up writing a wonderful book of local history, spiced up with family recipes from the Santa Cruz Chili & Spice Co. I received this new book in the mail today. I could not put it down. This is … Continue reading
El Paso & Southwestern: Baja Arizona’s Forgotten Railroad: Part I
The Beginning (This contribution is from Mike Anderson, Bisbee Historian, who earlier wrote our stories about the Bisbee Influenza of 1918 and the Bisbee Deportation) This is part I of a three-part series. Evidence of the past is all around us in the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. … Continue reading
The Scourge That Killed More Tucson Pioneers Than Apaches Did
From 1861 to 1886, only the most foolhardy Tucsonans would venture much beyond their little town surrounded by hostile desert and more hostile Apaches. Today, few know that six of Tucson’s first streets were named for local men killed by Apaches. Only one was named for a man who instead … Continue reading
Saving The Rare Sonoran Pronghorn
Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Project at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge by Rosemary Prawdzik The Northwestern region of the Sonoran Desert, near Ajo, AZ and northern Sonora, Mexico, is the only place in the world where wild populations of Sonoran Pronghorn exist. They have been brought back from the brink of … Continue reading
A Beautiful, Cruel Country: Life on the Wilbur-Cruce Ranch
A Beautiful, Cruel Country was published in 1987 when the author, Eva Wilbur-Cruce was in her 80’s. This is a story of her youth on a Southern Arizona ranch near Arivaca in the early 20th century. It is the story of a young girl, being educated by her father in … Continue reading
Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
by Karen Holliday Tanner: A Book Review I found out about this book while reading According To Kate which I reviewed earlier this year. A third of this book portrays the dentist-turned-gunfighter’s roots in the antebellum South, the effects of the Civil War on his home and relatives in Georgia, … Continue reading
Hiking in the Arizona Heat
Arizona has special guidelines for hiking in the summer months. Number one, take and drink plenty of water. Number 2, take and drink plenty of water. Wear a hat. Hike early or late or head up to 7000 ft. elevation. Carr Canyon, Brown Mountain, Mt. Hopkins, Mt. Graham will all … Continue reading
So, What’s the Weather Like in Tucson?
Updated 7/21/20. For all you who may be contemplating a visit or move to the Old Pueblo, did you ever wonder what the weather patterns are like in Tucson? Or did you recently move to Tucson and want to know what to expect? Perhaps you heard that it gets hot … Continue reading
Whitewater Draw Comes Alive; Monsoon Season in Arizona
The Whitewater Draw comes alive in the monsoon season in Southern Arizona northeast of Bisbee. It is a perfect place to hear the calls of many species of frogs and toads. But you have to be quick and timing is everything. This video by Mike Foster, explains the Monsoons, the … Continue reading
