In 1864, the beautiful park-like basin under Thumb Butte was surveyed, and the town that is now Prescott was laid out along Granite Creek where gold had been panned. Twice designated the capital of the newly established Territory of Arizona, Prescott suffered a devastating fire in July 1900 that destroyed the downtown district, but the blaze afforded the town?s resilient citizens the opportunity to rebuild in more durable brick and stone. Since then,...

Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant testament to her deep-seated understanding of Taoist...

Posthumous publication of a manuscript completed by anthropologist Sigrid Khera, who began working in March 1974 with Mike Harrison and John Williams, Yavapai elders from the Fort McDowell reservation, to record the tribe's history.

"Mrs. Ogg played the harp" tells the touching and funny story of an untested woman minister who ventures to the high country of northern Arizona where she accepts a pulpit in a small church in a country club. She confronts her husbands betrayal, copes with troublesome Christian beliefs, and finds God among catus, conservatives, and a compelling landscape.