They marched 45 miles in the sun with heavy signs and crosses. They slept eight months in tents surrounded by dirt with little food. Apache tribe members in Central Arizona are fighting for what they believe is their territory and are determined to preserve what they say is an essential part of the culture. The…
Inside the Arizona History Museum beside the University of Arizona campus, held in a glass display, is a cream handled Colt .45 revolver that museum officials say once belonged to Tombstone legend Wyatt Earp. Not so fast, say some gun collectors and the pre-eminent historian of Tombstone history. Laraine Daly Jones, collections manager at the…
When people think of pumpkin, it is no longer what’s in your Thanksgiving pie. The fall-time flavor has crept into coffee, gum, breakfast confections and snacks, what is next for the national phenomenon? For nearly three months out of the year, pumpkin spice dominates the food market with new variations popping up as quickly as…
Tombstone High School students score higher at standardized math testing than most Arizona students. That is not necessarily good news. All Arizona students score below the national norm.A year ago the numbers suggest that Arizona students scored better than the national norm. The state used the AIMS test to measure and it showed seven out…
Expanses of blood-orange canyons and luscious green shrubs line a small dirt road near the Texas Canyon exit off Interstate 10 in Cochise County and continue to a picnic area with boulders and grass fields resembling a barnyard. Here is the Amerind Museum, established in 1937, as a home to a collection of Native American…
