Arizona Jones at Inicial Monument

Arizona’s Most Prolific Con Man

The famous American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once said, โ€œSow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.โ€ For another man of Emersonโ€™s time, James Addison Reavis, who would become Arizonaโ€™s most …

The Verde Salt Mine and The Importance of Salt Through History

Imagine with me for a moment, you’re a miner, in the 1920s. Your employer has commissioned you and your fellow workers to dig extensive tunnels beneath the rocky ground of the Verde Valley. Somewhere, in the midst of your work, as you trace through the rich layers of salt, you find itโ€”a body! This body, …