Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 Census, the city's population was 45,827. The city is the county seat of Yavapai County.
The Missoulian is a daily newspaper printed in Missoula, Montana, United States. The newspaper has been owned by Lee Enterprises since 1959. The Missoulian is the largest published newspaper in Western Montana, and is distributed throughout the city of Missoula, and most of Western Montana.
The Tucson Citizen was a daily newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded by Richard C. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870, as the Arizona Citizen.
Richard Cunningham McCormick, Jr. was an American politician, businessman and journalist. He was the second Governor of Arizona Territory, three times delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona Territory and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York. McCormick was a war correspondent during two conflicts and the creator of two Arizona newspapers.
The Alta California or Daily Alta California was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper.
The Los Angeles Examiner was a newspaper founded in 1903 by William Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles, California. The afternoon Los Angeles Herald-Express and the morning Los Angeles Examiner, both of which had been publishing in the city since the turn of the 20th century, merged in 1962. For a few years after this merger, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner claimed the largest afternoon-newspaper circulation in the country, publishing its last edition on November 2, 1989.
The Buckeye Sun is the community newspaper of Buckeye, Arizona and of the larger Southwest Valley region of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is published weekly on Wednesdays and was formerly titled the Southwest Valley Sun.
Fort Whipple is a former United States (U.S.) Army post originally established at Del Rio Springs, north of present day Chino Valley, Arizona, and later relocated to a site in present day Prescott, Arizona.
The Weekly Arizonian was a newspaper published in Arizona Territory with a checkered existence from 1859 to 1871. It holds a special place in Arizona history as its first printed work, first newspaper and first political organ.
The Yuma Sun is a newspaper in Yuma, Arizona, United States.
The Sharlot Hall Museum is an open-air museum and heritage site located in Prescott, Arizona. Opened in 1928 by Sharlot M. Hall as the Gubernatorial Mansion Museum, the museum that now bears her name is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Central Highlands of Arizona.
William F. Turner was the first Chief Justice of the Territory of Arizona, serving in that capacity for about seven years. Born in Pennsylvania, he attended college in Ohio and practiced law there after graduation. When the Arizona territory was created, he sought to be appointed its first governor but was instead made Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Arizona. Renominated to a second four-year term, he was later removed under a cloud of scandal and political opposition while having an unblemished legal record. Turner then formed a successful law practice in Kansas, but his final years were impoverished.
Henry W. Nash,, known informally as Harry Nash, was an Arizona pioneer who served as a Sergeant in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. Later, he was one of the first Thomasites sent by the U.S. government to establish an English language-based public education system in the Philippines in the early 1900s.
The capital of the Arizona Territory was established in Prescott, but was moved to Tucson, back to Prescott, and finally to Phoenix over 25 years as political power shifted as the territory grew, developed, and stabilized. Each move was controversial.
The Border Vidette was a newspaper published in Nogales, Arizona with a slant towards the Democratic Party founded in 1894, by Harry Woods. The original editor was Frank M. King, who purchased the paper in 1897. King left in 1898 when Emory D. Miller purchased the paper. He would remain the editor/publisher until the paper ceased operations in 1934.
Mohave County Miner was a newspaper, founded by Anson H. Smith, which began operations on November 5, 1882, in Mineral Park, Arizona, in the back room of Hyde's Drug Store. It replaced The Alta Arizona, a magazine which had begun the preceding year. The paper was printed on one of the first Chicago stop-cylinder presses ever manufactured, and consisted of seven columns. Smith won enough money playing faro from Judge James Reed Russell to erect the newspaper's building on Beale Street. In 1885, Smith moved to Kingman, Arizona and started another paper, the Walapai Tribune. He sold his interest in the Miner to James J. Hyde in 1886. Hyde was editor in 1886 and 1887, when the paper moved operations to Kingman. Smith repurchased the paper in 1891, and took over both as editor and publisher. While remaining the publisher of the paper, Minnie A. Sawyer became the editor in 1895. She remained editor until 1917, when Smith once again resumed those duties.
