The Library & Archive’s Fort Whipple Collection is now fully processed, thanks to volunteer Worcester Bong. What does this mean for members and patrons?
Welcome to the first issue of our Museum Digest, a compilation of news briefs from around the Museum during the last month.
A Prescott railyard explosions in 1898 rained chunks of iron on the small town. There were several close calls…
The saga of Wyatt Earp remains bound in folklore and fact. His connection to early Prescott is an integral part of a live performance by the great grand-nephew of the
The unique story of Fort Whipple, from military base and tactical headquarters to one of the nation’s largest military hospitals and a modern veterans healthcare facility, will reopen beginning Thursday, July 8, 2021.
August 17, 1898: A massive explosion at Prescott’s railyard kills two men and sends a four-ton boiler flying 1200 feet. How did the accident happen?
Today aerial tramways let us soar above the earth in cable cars or chairlifts. But what did they look like in early Arizona?
George Phippen, cowboy artist that would shape Western art, saw his work through to the end of his life.
With a wisp of imagination, he is there. His paint palette laid out on the work table, George Phippen comes home to the rough-hewn studio he built himself.
