There were plenty of sensible reasons to not go backpacking in Hellsgate Wilderness. For starters, the name raised suspicions that it could be a Godforsaken place. And then there was the fact that…
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Editor’s Note: In March 1946, a few months after V-J Day, Editor Raymond Carlson made his return to our magazine. “With this issue,” he wrote, “the under-initialed returns to the editorship of…
The designated meeting spot along West Sedona’s stretch of State Route 89A couldn’t be more normal: a souvenir shop next to a gas station selling coffee mugs, cactus candy and T-shirts featuring red…
A sego lily displays its delicate bloom along the Barnhardt Trail, a hiking route in Central Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. Found in several Western states, sego lilies…
Hard out of the small town of Harqua, Arizona, Flame Delhi was a natural.
“Born in the heat of the alkali country,” as one newspaper rhapsodized, Delhi stood over 6 feet tall and weighed in at a…
Ever since I began my career as a news photographer in Chicago in the 1960s, I’ve felt that photography is something I’d do for free. (It’s nice to be paid for it, though.) For me, this art form goes…
Melissa Wright saw her life branching out before her like a green fig tree. Mirroring a passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, she was overwhelmed by the figs she could have chosen, each…
Arizona's largest Indigenous tribe has joined an effort that aims to prevent scavenging animals from suffering lead poisoning from eating the remains of animals shot by hunters.
The Navajo Nation's…