Arizona – The Grand Canyon State
From the Grand Canyon to Tucson, Arizona’s storied past reaches back thousands of years and you will enjoy it’s tall mountain ranges, swift rivers, grasslands, sand dunes, and cactus forests.
Experience the many tales of Tombstone, buried treasure at Flagstaff, and dozens of ghost towns, of this hauntingly beautiful state, by taking a virtual tour through Arizona.
One quarter of the land is occupied by Indian reservations, where traditional life continues largely unaffected by mainstream US culture. There are also many ruins from the Anasazi period around the twelfth century which are preserved as National Monuments. Be sure to visit Montezuma Castle, Walnut Canyon and Wupatki.
Recreation abounds in Arizona from its famous golf courses, to water sports at Lake Havasu, to its beautiful views of the Grand Canyon.
Enjoy your travels in Arizona and welcome to the Legends of the High Desert.
Kathy R. Weiser-Alexander
Editor/Founder, Legends of America
The 13 rays of red and gold on the top half of the flag represent both the 13 original colonies of the Union, and the rays of the Western setting sun. Red and gold were also the colors carried by Coronado’s Spanish expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540. The bottom half of the flag has the same Liberty blue as the United States flag. Since Arizona was the largest producer of copper in the nation, a copper star was placed in the flag’s center.
Arizona Articles:
Across the Painted Desert on Route 66
Apache – The Fiercest Warriors in the Southwest
Geronimo – The Last Apache Holdout
The Apache Kid – Outlaw Legend of the Southwest
Arizona Photo Prints & Downloads
Arizona Sightings – Short Ghost Stories
The Ark On Superstition Mountains
Ashfork – Flagstone Capital of the World
The Aztec Cattle Company & the Hashknife Outfit
Beale’s Wagon Road From New Mexico to California
Bellemont to Deer Park Road on Route 66
Beyond Winslow, Arizona on Route 66
Bisbee – Queen of the Copper Camps
Big Nose Kate – Holliday’s Sidekick
Buckskin Frank Leslie – Another Tombstone Rowdy
Camillus Sidney Fly – Photographer & Lawman
Canyon Diablo – Meaner Than Tombstone
Chloride – Preserving the Past for the Future
Clifton – Mining Copper Through Thick & Thin
Doc Holliday – Deadly Doc of the Old West
Fred White – Tombstone’s First Marshal
Frontier Era Time Capsule– (Johnson Canyon Rail Tunnel)
Flagstaff – City of Seven Wonders
Museum Club’s Unearthly Guests
Fort Apache – Warring with the Indians
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Fort McDowell – In the Midst of the Apache Wars
George Bravin – Tombstone’s British Marshal
Ghosts of the Cerbat Mountain Range
Golden Shores and Topock- End of the Line
Goldfield – Given a Third Rebirth
Goldroad, Arizona – Gone …. For Now
Grand Canyon – One of Seven Wonders
Grand Canyon Caverns – Stumbling Into Opportunity
Holbrook – Too Tough For Women or Churches
History & Haunting of the Navajo County Courthouse
J.L. Hubbell & the Hubbell Trading Post
Jerome – Copper Queen on the Hill
Joseph City & the Jackrabbit Trading Post
Kingman – Gateway to Hoover Dam
The Navajo Nation – Largest in the U.S.
Navajo Long Walk to the Bosque Redondo
Nellie Cashman – Pioneering the Mining Camps of the Old West
Old Convict’s Gravesite Near Safford
Patagonia Back Road Ghost Towns
Pearl Hart – Lady Bandit of Arizona
Pete Spence – Escaping the Wrath of the Earps
Petrified Forest National Park
The Curse of the Petrified Forest
Pleasant Valley War, aka: Tonto Range War
Chloride – A Ghost Town and Then Some
The Journal of Sedona Schnebly
Seligman – Pride in Pavement is King!
Sleeping With Ghosts in Arizona
Sunnyside – A Different Kind of Ghost Town
Texas John Slaughter – Taming Arizona
Tips For Traveling in the Desert
Tombstone – The Town Too Tough to Die
Vigilantes and Bad Men of Arizona
Williams – Gateway to the Grand Canyon
Red Garter Bed & Bakery Haunting