AZ Speaks Highlight: Erik Berg
Rock Hounds and River Rats at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa on May 12th Erik Berg is an award-winning historian and writer with a special interest in […]
Father Kino: Journey to Discovery
Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with […]
Father Kino: Journey to Discovery
Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with […]
Father Kino: Journey to Discovery
Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with […]
How Wild Was It? Crime and Justice in Arizona Territory
Arizona’s territorial era has the reputation of being a violent and crime-ridden place with ineffective criminal justice institutions. This presentation provides an overview of crime and justice in Arizona Territory. […]
Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier
Hang on to your hats as you ride the trails beside some of Arizona’s most wicked renegades during a time when massacres, mayhem and mischief ran rampant throughout Arizona Territory. […]
Fascinating Florence, AZ: Not Just a Prison Town
Florence began as a small rural desert town. In 1875 a major silver strike and designation as Pinal County seat changed the character of the town. Despite the past tales […]
Along Old Route 66
This presentation is based on segments from two television documentaries that were produced in Arizona and broadcast on public television stations and cable networks throughout the United States. Longtime residents […]
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and Stage Coaches and Boats, too): Women Travel in Arizona
Arizona has some of the most stunning scenery in the world, but until recently, traveling over this terrain was quite an adventure. Meet women like army wife Martha Summerhayes, suffrage […]
Eloy’s Gun and Cotton Stories: Romanticizing the Real
This presentation focuses on the lively and lawless days of Eloy, Arizona. Eloy might have had a reputation that rivaled that of Tombstone, with its killings, graft, good time houses, […]