Scottsdale was not built as a resort. It started as a farm town on the edge of the Salt River Valley. In the late 1880s, Army chaplain Winfield Scott and his wife Helen settled here. By 1894 the townsite had a name — first Orangedale, then Scottsdale — and a grid of...
This is the season. Halloween first. Then the lights. October is when Puzzle Rides stops feeling like “something we should do someday” and starts disappearing off the calendar. Ghost Riders fills first. In Prescott, the Live Game of Clue is right behind it. Corporate...
The Brand Must Be Registered in the Ledger Last week we said a cattle brand only works if it lives in two places: on the animal and in the book. The iron marks the hide. The register proves who owns the mark. Separate those, and you no longer have ownership. You have...
A Brand is More Than a Decoration A brand is not a decoration. It is a sentence written on hide: this animal belongs here. The tool is simple. An iron is heated and pressed into the hide so the mark will last. In the American West that mark was usually about two to...
The Puzzle Shop Next Door, Fall Dates That Sell Out Heading north for a cooler Labor Day weekend? While the Valley is still hanging on to summer heat, Prescott usually delivers that first real hint of fall — more shade on Courthouse Plaza, more time to wander...
Sometimes puzzles hold secrets of their own. Anyone who has dumped a thousand pieces onto a table knows the feeling. At first it looks like chaos. Then, slowly, a picture starts to form. The same thing happens in life… and on a Puzzle Ride. Clues don’t always land...
