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Seven hangings, two cases, fifty years of history — the Tombstone Courthouse holds stories that most people walk right past without knowing.

Some bridges just carry cars. This one carries about a hundred years of history, a near-demolition, and a community that wasn't ready to let it go.

Long before campfire stories were a thing, Apache storytellers had a character who could steal fire, cheat death, and still somehow lose a turkey to his own reflection.

Arizona went dry five years before the rest of the nation, but Prohibition sparked bootlegging, smuggling, and even the famous Gleeson gunfight. Explore how Arizona's alcohol ban shaped life across the state.

There's something almost sad about a man so desperate to be an outlaw legend that he argued himself into a gunfight over a nickname.

Walter Douglas ran one of the most powerful mining operations in America — and when his workers went on strike, his response was anything but legal.

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit southern Arizona and northern Mexico in 1887, and the man sent to investigate had no proper instruments and made do with what he had.

Adobe has been around longer than most people realize, and the way it handles Arizona's brutal summer sun still holds up today.

Sunset Crater last erupted less than a thousand years ago. In geological terms, that's basically yesterday afternoon.

Arizona's state motto has been around since before it was even a state — and the Latin phrase behind it says a lot about what early settlers believed this land could become.