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If you’re adventurous and want to really get up-close-and-personal to the Mexican/Arizona connection, then you might consider a Great Train Escape that leaves from Tucson and explores Mexico’s Copper Canyon (four times the size of the Grand Canyon). The nine day/eight night trip uses train tracks that climb from sea level to almost 8,000 feet, [...]

Phoenix could not have been settled as it was to become the focus of Arizona that it is today without the help of some early visionaries.John Y. T. Smith, a former member of the California Volunteers, arrived at Fort McDowell in the spring of 1866 and was contracted to supply hay for the soldiers’ horses [...]

There’s more to Nogales, Arizona than its close proximity to Nogales, Mexico and some of the history that is associated with that. For example, if you’re into caving the Cave of Bells is an underground wilderness that even includes it own warm lake. This cave was first mentioned in early pioneer accounts dating back to [...]

As the first Anglo Americans settled in Tucson in the 1850s and 1860s, Hispanic families from Tucson and northern Sonora started moving north into the valleys of central Arizona. Many were driven north by the growing political turmoil in Sonora and they moved into the unsettled interior of the territory because they recognized that this [...]

If you want to experience a true border town that embraces its heritage roots then a visit to Nogales, Arizona might be in short order. Historically Nogales was part of a migratory path and trade route (later called El Camino Real the King’s Highway) and got its name from the Spanish word for “walnut” since [...]