/r/AZhistory
The history of the great state of Arizona.
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Arizona! Arizona Rangers, Grand Canyon State, Tombstone, Native American tribes, Hohokam, Anasazi, Apache, Navajo, Spanish missions, Mexican period, Pioneer life, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Geronimo, Cochise, Barry Goldwater, Sandra Day O'Connor, Cesar Chavez, etc
The history of the great state of Arizona.
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Arizona!
/r/AZhistory
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"Michael J. Goldwater’s first trading post was in what would become the Arizona Territory was in Gila City. It did not survive the 1862 flood, but that did not deter him from starting over. The grandfather of Senator Barry Goldwater eventually found success (in Prescott)."
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2024/11/08
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Arizona Territory (1864)
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2024/11/08
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John C. Frémont was appointed governor of the Arizona Territory by President Rutherford B. Hayes and served from 1878 to 1881. He spent little time in Arizona, and was asked to resume his duties in person or resign; Frémont chose resignation. (photo c.1856)
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2024/11/08
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"William Hardy opened the Quartz Rock Saloon in Prescott, Arizona Territory, on November 14, 1864 "
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2024/11/06
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"The Palace Restaurant & Saloon was rebuilt after a fire burned much of downtown Prescott, Arizona, in 1900. Since 1874, when the Cabinet Saloon opened for business, a bar has operated at approximately the same location on a section of South Montezuma Street that is known as Whiskey Row"
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2024/11/06
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John Horton Slaughter was a rancher, frontiersman, and lawman who served as Cochise County Sheriff for several terms and was instrumental in bringing a semblance of law and order to the region.
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2024/11/06
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✨🗺️ Tucson, Arizona 1920 United States City Map • Old Map of the Day: March 21, 2023
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2024/11/06
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✨🗺️ Tombstone, Arizona 1962 United States City Map • Old Map of the Day: April 12, 2023
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2024/11/06
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Cowboys taking a lunch break on the 3C’s Ranch (Chiricahua Cattle Company) near Duncan, (c. 1902)
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2024/11/05
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Apache Indian Scouts Chicken and Josh on the Mexican border in 1916.
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2024/11/02
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Tombstone (c. 1880)
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2024/10/30
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Question about iron and the Spanish in Arizona at around 1769
I'm writing a story set in this time period, and I can't find the answer to this question on Google. I'm wondering if the Spanish set up foundries, etc. in Arizona as early at the late 1760s. If not, did they get their horseshoes, gun (muskets?) parts, etc. from Mexico? How did they keep their metal things (guns, horse shoes, nails, barrel hoops, parts for various and sundry things) in working order?
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2024/10/29
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Globe, AZ (c. 1913)
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2024/10/28
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"The earliest bowling alley (Arizona Historian Marshall Trimble) found in Arizona was Vogan’s Saloon in Tombstone in 1879. Tombstone was a wealthy town at the time and could afford luxuries, such as bowling alleys, that other frontier towns could not."
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2024/10/28
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Jerome, Arizona (1927)
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2024/10/24
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Nathan Burdette, John T. Chance, Stumpy, Feathers, and Dude at Old Tucson, on the set of Rio Bravo (1959)
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2024/10/22
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William Jennings Bryant and Morris Goldwater testing the new Collins Wireless Telephone at the Prescott Electric Telephone Company. (1909)
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2024/10/22
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Fort Rickerson (c. 1885)
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2024/10/21
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Captain James H. McClintock, B Troop Commander, 1st US Voluntary Cavalry Regiment "Rough Riders" while convalescing from wounds in his leg at the Battle of Las Guasimas, Cuba on 24 June 1898 during the Spanish-American War. McClintock High School in Tempe bears his name.
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2024/10/19
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Geronimo departing for Florida from Fort Bowie, Arizona (1895)
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2024/10/17
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A freight wagon like the ones Virgil and Wyatt manhandled across the Mojave Desert, approaches Prescott, Arizona Territory in the 1890s.
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2024/10/15
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July 17, 1992. The Phoenix Suns sent Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry, and Andrew Lang to the 76ers in exchange for Charles Barkley, a six-time All-Star and four-time first-team All-NBA player (&He was about to play on The Dream Team in July of 1992.).
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2024/10/13
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Cabinet Card of Al Sieber and Apache Scouts c.1888
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2024/10/12
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Jack Swilling (c.1875)
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2024/10/12
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"A cockfight held in a roped-off arena on the outskirts of Tombstone in the 1880's draws a crowd eager to see the feathers and blood fly. The popularity of this gory sport, a favored diversion among the ranchers of the area, reflected the raw and often violent tenor of life in frontier Arizona."
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2024/10/10
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"Sheriff John Behan of Tombstone, attended here by his wife, Victoria, was the principal lawman of the county and an archfoe of Wyatt Earp. After he left office, Behan was indicted for collecting taxes after his term expired, but he was never prosecuted."
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2024/10/09
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Corp Jonas V. Brighton. The man who shot and killed outlaw Ike Clanton. Brighton, acting at the time as a stock detective for area cattlemen (&may have also been deputized by Apache County Sheriff C.P. Owens )when he shot Clanton in June, 1887 in the vicinity of Eagle Creek, Arizona. (photo c.1900)
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2024/10/07
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