Check back for two more Arizona ghost stories in the days to come! retold by S. E. Schlosser We were on our way back to Yuma following a futile attempt to find Pegleg’s lost gold mine out in the heat and dust of the desert. We stopped to make camp for the night between a rock and a hard place, and soon my friend Eddie was snoring loud enough to wake the dead. I drifted off myself, and started dreaming [...]
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Shadow Train An Arizona Ghost Story
THIS WILL BE THE FIRST OF FOUR NEW ARIZONA GHOST STORIES. LOOK FOR THE NEXT THREE IN THE COMING DAYS! retold by S. E. Schlosser A miner was on his way to Dos Cabezas, where here heard there was good prospecting, when he found himself lost and alone in the flats just north of the Dragoon Mountains. In the blistering sun of midday, his burro dropped dead from heatstroke and the prospector knew that he would shortly follow if he [...]
Mar
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Whatever Happened To Glen and Bessie?
by Crystal Coons Mar 19, 2003 I have an undeniable attraction to mysteries. There’s something about the theories that form after hearing the story that just keep me going. I have a mystery story for all of you interested in Arizona. Pathers. Let me tell you the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde. It was almost a century ago, when the two young loves took it upon themselves to make history. It was after their 1928 wedding when they decided [...]
Mar
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It’s So Hot in Arizona That…
By Judy Hedding, About.com Guide It’s pretty easy to make jokes about the heat in Arizona in the summer. If we didn’t laugh, we’d be crying! But just you wait. In the winter, our favorite activity is to call our friends and relatives in the north and northeast and ask them casually, “So, how’s the weather?” Ha, ha. I have seen these jokes in several places, and even received them via email a few times. What? You’ve never seen them [...]
Feb
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The History of Jerome Arizona
[/caption]From Jerometimes.com The history of Jerome, Arizona is a much longer one than that of the town itself. Before Jerome was Jerome it was the site of a small dig mined by the local Yavapai tribe. The Spanish were the first Europeans to explore the Verde River area in the 16th century. Antonio de Espejo and a troop of Conquistators came through the area looking for El Cibola (the mythic Seven Cities of Gold). Local natives showed them a spot [...]
Feb
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My Long Distance Love Affair With Arizona
February 9, 2012 By SamLowe On May 19, 1969, while shivering in my front yard in Jamestown, North Dakota, with a shovel in my hand, a well-rehearsed litany of curses emerged from my frosted lips as I set about removing a small portion of the foot of snow that had plopped down upon us the previous evening. But then, as I swore and shoveled and shoveled and swore in rhythmic fashion, a strange calm came upon me with the realization [...]
Feb
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ASU wrestling champ Robles an inspiration on, off the mat
by Scott Bordow – Feb. 10, 2012 11:32 PM The Republic | azcentral.com Anthony Robles had to think about the question for a couple of seconds. What does he see himself doing 10 years from now? “I don’t know,” he said with a chuckle. “I had no idea 10 years ago I would be doing public speaking. I was actually shy. I didn’t like speaking in front of crowds. It’s crazy how life goes.” Isn’t it? Imagine a young boy [...]
Feb
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10 Best Cities / Small Towns/ Places to Visit in Arizona
By Kathryn Vercillo Arizona is a really beautiful state with a lot that is interesting for a visitor to see. What is really great about Arizona, though, is that you can see many different types of things within a fairly small geographic area. There are mountains and valleys, deserts and forests, huge urban areas and deserted ghost towns. There is the hustle and bustle of Phoenix, one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the nation and there is the [...]
Feb
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Arizona Weather Facts and Trivia
When many people think of Arizona they think of cowboys, and sand dunes, and heat, and cacti. It may come as a surprise that Arizona actually has quite a varied topography, which includes low desert (Phoenix, Yuma), mid desert (Tucson, Wickenburg), high desert (Prescott, Payson, Bisbee, Sedona), plateau highlands (Williams, Page, Holbrook), and cold mountainous regions (Flagstaff, Greer). Arizona is home to this country’s largest Ponderosa Pine Forest. The highest elevation point in the State of Arizona is Humphreys Peak, [...]
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Wickenburg: Fun for weekend dudes, artsy types, outdoors enthusiasts
by Roger Naylor – Jan. 20, 2012 02:30 PM Special for The Republic To understand Wickenburg, you have to understand Mike Billingsley’s artificial knee. Billingsley runs BC Jeep Tours, taking visitors bouncing into the backcountry in vintage Willys Jeeps. He offers 14 tours that include splashing through a box canyon in the thin soup of the Hassayampa River and stomach-churning ascents up old mining roads to high volcanic crests where the craggy landscape sprawls below. “I had a guest ranch, [...]
