This Christmas greeting first appeared in our December 1940 issue. It’s been updated here with our collection of covers from 2025.
Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours
Editor’s Note: This Christmas greeting first appeared in our December 1940 issue. It’s been updated here with our collection of covers from 2025.    
Photograph of Kevin Kibsey in studio setting holding a handful of paintbrushes is by Paul Markow.
Vaya Con Dios, Amigo
If Kevin Kibsey had been a character on Gunsmoke, he would have been Newly, the deputy marshal. The good-lookin’ good guy. Kevin wasn’t born on a ranch, ropin’ calves and breakin’ horses, but his…
Good triumphs over evil in Guadalupe's humorous morality play La Pastorela. Here, Zarco Guerrero's Satan tangles with the Archangel Michael as portrayed by Rose Villa. | Jeff Kida
La Pastorela
The very first Christmas Eve: The "Archangel Michael" struggles to get the attention of a group of preoccupied shepherds. She's having a tough time: The wise old man of the shepherds, Bartolo, doesn'…
A sandstone cave near Schnebly Hill Road frames a panorama of Red Rock Country. By Chirag Patel
Everyday Arizona: Red Rocks
I don’t believe in the idea of an “everyday thing.” Each night, the moon offers a new face. Each day, the sun burns with a different intensity. Nothing in this life repeats itself exactly. To call…
Sonoran Desert National Monument, east of Gila Bend in Southern Arizona, is home to an extensive forest of saguaros. | Paul Gill
Something to Call Our Own
They are legendary beings, part plant, part human, part god. On their coldest nights, sometimes the great arms of saguaros will sag and sway, and then slowly grow back into absurd, sometimes lewd…
Geno D’Ambrose (pictured) grew up around horses and worked for a saddle maker in Payson before opening his own business in Tombstone in the 1980s. By Steven Meckler
The Arizona Highways Tack Shop
Photograph by Paul MarkowBen’s Saddlery 174 N. Tegner Street, Wickenburg, benssaddlery.com When it opened on North Tegner Street in 1955, this celebrated Wickenburg…
Photograph of Bill Anton holding paint brushes in his studio by Joel Grimes
Painting From Life
Bill Anton is unsettled. On the first Saturday in August, a wildfire is burning near Kirkland. The Dragon Bravo Fire continues to rage on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and the echoes of the…
Vinson Picozzi, Keaton Jasso and Kaden Summer are shown at the X Diamond’s Voigt Allotment in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. By Scott Baxter
The Young’Uns
Ella Smith 10 X Ranch, northeast of Douglas Ella, her three siblings and their parents live on a Southeastern Arizona ranch. Here, Ella is pictured in front of a stock…