The rising sun illuminates a blooming ocotillo and prickly pear cactuses along the Sedona area’s Teacup Trail. Ocotillos typically bloom in the spring but may also do so in response to summer rainfall. | Laura Zirino
The Nerve of Mother Nature …
Fittonia albivenis is native to South America — to places such as Ecuador and Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil. Indigenous tribes in these places use the plant’s leaves as a salve for headaches and…
Tall cottonwoods and flowering plants reach toward the steep sandstone walls of Paria Canyon, a remote destination in Northern Arizona. Known for its hiking opportunities, the canyon is part of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. By Jack Dykinga
Colors: The Music of the Eyes
Editor’s Note: In the final installment of our centennial salute, we present an essay by Jack Foster, who ranks as one of the very best writers we’ve ever published — he…
Bird's-eye view of a waterfall in Boynton Canyon, near Sedona is by Mark Frank.
This Is My Story … by Mark Frank
I’m a retired landscape architect, so when I’m composing a photo, I often think about the rules of design. That was the case for this image. I’ve spent a lot of time hiking and photographing in and…
Bob James (back row, far right) appears in a team photo during his time with the Idaho Falls Russets, a New York Yankees farm team, in the early 1940s. | Courtesy of Alicia Hicks
Minor-Leaguer Bob James
O‌n June 23, 1946, Bob James played the role of hero in the nightcap of the Spokane Indians’ doubleheader against the first-place Salem Senators. In the bottom of the ninth, the stocky Arizonan…
A brown horse with a white blaze runs in the foreground, kicking up dust, while other horses are blurred in the background.
The Last of the Wild West
When Allen and Cynthia True bought the White Stallion Ranch in 1965, it was a secluded property nestled against the Tucson Mountains and what later became Saguaro National Park, just northwest of…
Casey Murph (left) and Jones Benally go riding on the HRY Ranch, west of Holbrook. | Scott Baxter
Cowboys and Indians
EDITOR’S NOTE: For this month’s portfolio, we’ve combined the work of two of our most talented photographers: Scott Baxter, the artist behind the 100 Years, 100 Ranchers project that we featured in…
Gil (left) and Troy Gillenwater search for a suitable campsite near the Sierra Ancha during their 1982 trek across Arizona. With them are Judy (left) and Grandma, their pack mules for most of the 810-mile journey. By Gil and Troy Gillenwater
The Path of Most Resistance
“We wanted to stay away from towns and cities and to trace the paths of Ancestral Puebloans and pioneers and prospectors. We wanted to walk 800 miles back into a different time and dimension.” —…
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson made news around the world when she reappeared after her purported 1926 kidnapping — but nowhere more so than in Douglas, where her re-emergence set off a media frenzy. | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEITH WHITNEY
On The Third Day She Rose Again
A few hours before a summer dawn, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson walked out of the Chihuahuan Desert and came back from the dead. Five weeks earlier, on May 18, 1926, McPherson, one of Southern…