Many love him, many hate him and the ones who dislike Tombstone Mayor Dustin Escapule don’t talk about him because they fear him. The man known as Dusty has made the “town too tough to die” his town. His strong local support and service over five terms in 10 years delivers the last name Escapule…
He was the only man to put Geronimo in chains. He gave witness to the most famous gunfight in the West. He was one of the most prominent publishers in Arizona. To some of his contemporaries, John Philip Clum was an “egotistical ass”. To others, he was an advocate for the Apaches, a capable editor…
Cottonwoods shade a river where thousands of fish swim and millions of migrating birds stop. This green ribbon ebbs and flows through an otherwise charcoal brown valley. Dirt roads lead to farms and homes, cows graze and wind blows through desert trees and shrubs. Usually this area is quiet and peaceful, but recently this valley…
Robin Capin Rivera-Ashford knows how hard it was to grow up Jewish in the Grand Canyon State. “In my generation, I may have been the only one who had a bat mitzvah,” says Rivera-Ashford. She grew up in Nogales, a town originally named Isaacson after a Jewish immigrant who discovered the settlement in 1880. She…
It’s a mixture of spices and flavors that take days if not weeks to create and spurs debate about what makes the best. This is the world of the mole and in Southern Arizona, chefs and locals alike seek to keep the tradition alive while adding their own personal twist. The word “mole” comes from the…
