While many Southern Arizona dude ranches are now gone, the White Stallion Ranch near Marana has bucked the trend, surviving ...

Hey dude, you're nude. And at the Mira Vista, a dude ranch in Tucson, Ariz., you're likely to have a lot of company. Imagine that: bare-skinned partners on the tennis court and in the yoga studio. The ...

Decades before statehood in 1912, the riches of the Sonoran Desert attracted prospectors and the outlaws who followed them. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo and the wildest of the Wild West ...

One hundred horses and a lone donkey clattered from the corral. Behind them, cottonwood trees burned egg-yolk yellow and the mountains blurred to silhouettes. Hooves drummed and dust scattered. I had ...

Each February, I find myself in the Tucson desert atop a sweaty 1,000-pound horse, his hoofs pounding through the rocky wash at a steady gallop. I lean back, keep the heels of my boots down in the ...