A spot near John Ford Point offers a dramatic view of the weathered buttes of Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation. | Jerry Jacka
Culture

Photographs by Jerry D. Jacka

One of Jacka’s favorite Arizona spots was Coal Mine Canyon, southeast of Tuba City on the Navajo Nation. “Each time I take a photograph, I feel as...
Superstition Mountain is the title of this painting by David Swing, depicting the iconic mountain with a foreground of a dirt road through desert landscape dotted by saguaros.
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The Nature Of An Artist

CORONADO TRAIL   LAKE MEAD   THE NATURAL BRIDGE   Cochise Head   David Swing paints a...
Students, teachers and other staff at a federal Indian boarding school in the Kingman area pose for a photo around 1900. | University of Southern California DIGITAL LIBRARY, California Historical Society Collection
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Painful Lessons

The only things my mother heard were the sounds of children’s cries, whimpers and soft footsteps as they fled into the night and she hid in fear...
The Nopales Suite (pictured) is a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with a kitchenette and western décor. By Steven Meckler
Lodging

Wills House

Leigh and Shad Kvetko are no strangers to things from the past — or the hospitality industry. They’ve peddled vintage wares in Phoenix and Dallas. They’re the proprietors of Las Almas Rotas, an award...
The Gold Spot, at Roosevelt Street and Third Avenue in Phoenix, is shown in 1925, the year it opened. | THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC VIA NEWSPAPERS.COM
History

The Gold Spot

Newspaper writers in the 1920s were known for hyperbole, but sometimes, their enthusiasm ended up being prophetic. That was the case in September...
A female pyrrhuloxia perches in the foreground as a female cardinal prepares to land in the background. By Jack Dykinga
Nature

Pyrrhuloxia

The pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus), or desert cardinal, is a small bird native to the desert Southwest and northern Mexico. Keen on nesting in...
The gas-powered riverboat Aztec passes through a movable bridge at Yuma in 1902. The Aztec moved cargo on the Colorado River between Yuma and Needles, California, until 1905, when a severe sandstorm caused it to wreck a few miles downstream from Needles. | THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
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Rollin' On The River

Behind the moored steamboat Gila, a bridge used by the Southern Pacific Railroad spans the Colorado River at Yuma in a photo from the late 1870s...
Clyde Tombaugh peers through a 6-inch telescope at the University of Kansas, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. This photo was made in 1936, six years after Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. | New Mexico State University
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Staring Into Space

Looking through a hand magnifier, Clyde Tombaugh could barely see the stars on the image in front of him at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory. “My hand...