By T. Stone 

In Part I, we learned that the 1918 Spanish flu arrived in Prescott on October 2, 1918 and the spread of infection rose and fell like a scythe cutting ripe wheat.

By T. Stone 

Ninety years ago, the world, in the final throes of the Great War (known today as World War I), was confronted with an influenza pandemic that ended up killing more than 50,000,000 people worldwide; a number at least twice the number of those soldiers who died in battle during the war. Some called it the "plague" but most called this contagion the Spanish flu because it was first reported as a pandemic in Spain.

By Parker Anderson

It was June 6, 1898. The dust had not yet settled from the hanging three days earlier of legendary Yavapai County outlaw James Parker, when the still of everyday Prescott life was shattered by the sound of gunfire on North Cortez Street. Soon, Dr. John Bryan McNally, one of Prescott's most prominent physicians, and remembered yet today as a great Prescott pioneer, staggered out into the street with a gunshot wound. It was nothing short of a miracle that McNally was alive, as reported by the Arizona Journal-Miner: "The bullet struck a watch in Dr. McNally's pocket, glancing off and then passed through the fleshy part of the left arm between the elbow and wrist."

By Pauline O'Neill and edited by Parker Anderson

The following composition by Pauline O'Neill, the widow of Prescott's famed William Own "Buckey" O'Neill, first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner in 1898, shortly after Buckey's death in the Spanish American War as one of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The exact date it appeared is not currently known, although the data undoubtedly exists somewhere.

By William Peck

The Hillside Store and Bar has passed through several owners over the years and history shows that eventually they all resorted to the sale of liquor to stay in business, which just as regularly brought them down since they invariably ended up as a bar. 

Are you old enough to remember when you could enter any bar and other establishments in Yavapai County and play the slots? It was about 1946, (don't hold me to the exact date), when Jerry Butler was Sheriff.

By Stan Brown

This is Part 3 of a three part article.  Part 1 was published on June 21, 2008 and Part 2 was published June 28, 2008 and all are in the SHM L&A Days Past Archives.

In Part 2 last week, we ended with the establishment of the Lone Star Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church) by the Rev. Romulus Windes, a Baptist Missionary who had arrived in Prescott in 1879. Soon after his arrival, he was teaching school in the Mosher cabin at the present day Las Fuentes location and was instrumental in having a new schoolhouse built the following year on Iron Springs Road. Part 3 concludes this series.

By Arizona Cowboy Poets Assocation Committee 

Whoever named the Las Vegas Ranch knew what they were talking about. In Spanish, Las Vegas means "the meadows." At one time, the ranch extended from Williamson Valley west to Camp Wood and was known as the Otis and York Cattle Company. It covered many sections of the most beautiful land in northern Arizona.

By Carol A. Powell 

On the night of May 29, 1897, officers of Yavapai County were returning to Prescott by rail from Flagstaff with two outlaw prisoners, James Fleming Parker and Louis Clair Miller. A large mob had gathered at the Prescott depot awaiting the train and there was great fear that they would do bodily harm to the prisoners, carrying out their threats to lynch the two. The mob, with cries of “hang them,” was restrained by the County Sheriff and five or six deputies well armed with Winchester rifles and six-shooters. However, the train stopped outside of Prescott, well away from the depot, and the prisoners were taken off the train and transported to the county jail by carriage, avoiding any confrontation at the depot.

By Parker Anderson

For many years, visitors to the Sharlot Hall Museum have admired the Territorial Women's Memorial Rose Garden as one of the most colorful areas on the museum grounds. It is especially brilliant during the summer when the roses are in full bloom.

The rose garden is a tribute to the pioneer women of Arizona and all they accomplished, much of which is too-often forgotten in the popular male-dominated histories of yore. Originally, the plan was for one rose bush in memory of each woman inducted into the rose garden memorial roster. With the passing of time, the number of women inducted surpassed the area available for planting. Now the garden, as a whole, is in tribute to these courageous women in our history whose indomitable spirit lives on.

By Stan Brown

 This is Part 1 of a three part article.  Part 2 was published on June 28, 2008 and Part 3 was published July 12, 2008 and all are in the SHM L&A Days Past Archives.

The Las Fuentes Resort Village in Prescott, off Ruth Street, comes by its name naturally, which is Spanish for "springs" or "fountains." It is situated on the site of several artesian springs that bubble out of their granite prisons at the northern end of Miller Valley. The area was originally called "West Prescott." The springs form headwaters for the North Fork of Granite Creek, the primary drainage for the Prescott area and the uppermost tributary of the Verde River.