Prairie Rose Publications

By Kristy McCaffrey Bill Kirkland Born in Virginia, Bill Kirkland came west in 1850 at the age of eighteen to the gold fields of Ca...

By Kristy McCaffrey In the late 1800’s, the unrelenting migration of miners, ranchers, and settlers into the Arizona Territory produced...

By Kristy McCaffrey During the 1800’s, when many Native Americans were forced onto reservations, the American government agreed to prov...

By Kristy McCaffrey The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was in 1791 in Massachusetts. In 1845, the New York Kni...

An urgent plea for help from a family member calls for action from Xenia Poindexter and her sister, Mea Ann. How can the rest of the famil...

By Kristy McCaffrey In 1886, the Arizona Territory offered a less-than-ideal educational environment. The Pleasant Valley War between...

By Kristy McCaffrey Located in northern Arizona, Flagstaff lies at the base of the highest mountain range in Arizona—the San Francisco ...

By Kristy McCaffrey Martha Dunham Summerhayes Martha “Mattie” Summerhayes is best known for her memoir, Vanished Arizona , which ...

By Kristy McCaffrey Fort Bowie—located in southeastern Arizona—would become one of the most important military posts in the Arizona T...

By Kristy McCaffrey The "Long Walk" was the incarceration of the Navajo Indians at Bosque Redondo—near Ft. Sumner in New Mexi...