The Marvel Comics superhero characters James and John Proudstar are from a reservation in Camp Verde.
The 1977 horror movie Kingdom of the Spiders was filmed in Camp Verde.
In the 2011 film Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost plan to visit Camp Verde as a UFO hot spot along with Rachel, Nevada, Area 51, Apache Junction, Arizona and Roswell, New Mexico.
In Cable #7, Camp Verde is a bunker headquarters of the X-Force.
Coolidge
Coolidge is home of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The monument was the first historic site to receive protected status by the United States Government in 1892. The ancient city was built about 1200 A.D. by the Hohokam people.
Cottonwood
Notable People
Frederick Henry Ball – American movie studio executive and younger brother of Lucille Ball.
Junior Brown – country singer and guitarist
Ray Manley – photographer
June Miller – Second wife of writer Henry Miller
John Pedersen – arms designer, known for the Pedersen device
Alvie Self – singer, member of Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Max Terhune – actor (1891–1973)
Ambyr Childers – actress
Douglas
The town was a site of the Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983.
Notable People
"Texas John" Slaughter, Cochise County Sheriff (1886-1896), rancher, gunfighter, cattleman, businessman, community leader in Douglas' early years, and a champion for Arizona's statehood. He and his wife Viola are buried in Calvary Cemetery in Douglas.
Western songwriter Stan Jones, (June 14, 1914 to December 13, 1963) who wrote "Ghost Riders in the Sky," and is in the Western Music Association Hall of Fame, was born and raised in Douglas.
Bill Melendez, born Jose Cuauhtemoc Melendez in Mexico in 1916, was educated in the public schools of Douglas as a child. A character animator, film producer and film director, he is best known for his work as the voice of Snoopy in the Charlie Brown series.
Manny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence first as film critic and later as a painter was born in Douglas in 1917.
Effie Anderson Smith, also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith (1869-1955), an early Arizona Impressionist painter of desert landscapes around Cochise County, and especially of the Grand Canyon. Often referred to in newspaper and magazine articles of the period as the "Dean of Arizona Women Artists".
Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist, once made Douglas his temporary home. He started his longest novel, The Eighth Day while living in Douglas. On his initial visit to the city, he stayed at the historic Gadsden Hotel.[citation needed]
Jay Dusard Contemporary photographer, 1981 Guggenheim award winner [4], recipient of two book awards and a Pulitzer nomination.
Duncan
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up near Duncan on the Lazy B ranch, which straddles the border between Arizona and New Mexico. The Day family ran the ranch for many years until selling it; it continues to be run as a ranch. O'Connor later wrote a book titled Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest about her childhood experiences on the ranch with her brother H. Alan Day.
Eloy
Notable People
Mossy Cade – former professional football player
Anna Maria Chávez – former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA
Levi Jones – former professional football player
Benny Malone – former professional football player
Ricky Nelson – former professional baseball player
Paul Powell – former professional baseball player
Jeff Provenzano – professional skydiver
Florence
The largest Arizona State Prison complex, the Florence complex, is located in the city,
The city's preserved Main Street and open desert scenery was the setting of the major motion picture Murphy's Romance.
Just north of Florence during World War II was located a large prisoner of war camp for German and Italian prisoners of war, mainly captured during the North Africa campaign. The Pinal County Historical Museum on Main Street in Florence has a display and information on this period of Arizona history
Space Age Lodge
Gila Bend
Gila Bend enjoys a minor notability among tourists and aficionados of roadside attractions. Besides the quirky welcome sign, the town boasts several roadside sculptures[5] and the Space Age Lodge motel and restaurant (opened in 1963), named for its "Space Age" themed architecture and decor.
The band Los Lobos wrote a song called "The Road To Gila Bend", which appears on their 2006 release The Town and the City.
A more recent event in the area was the October 1995 sabotage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited train The 1995 Palo Verde derailment took place on October 9, 1995, when an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars derailed, four of them falling 15 feet off a bridge into a dry river bed. Mitchell Bates, a sleeping car attendant was killed, and 78 people were injured, 12 of them seriously.
Globe
Globe is known for having links to Geronimo and the Apache Kid. On October 23, 1889, the Apache Kid's trial was held in the Globe Courthouse. After he was convicted, it was the responsibility of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds to transport him to the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona. Sheriff Reynolds, his deputy, and their prisoners set out in an armored stagecoach holding the Apache Kid inside. Somewhere near present day Kearny, Arizona, Sheriff Reynolds let the Apache Kid out of the stagecoach seeing as they were on an uphill climb and he wanted to ease the burden on the horses. The Apache Kid was able to overcome and murder Sheriff Reynolds.
In 1884 the surviving Clanton brothers Ike and Phineas arrived in Apache County after the fight the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone. Ike was eventually killed by a local deputy sheriff, and Phineas, after serving prison time for a stage robbery, moved to Globe, where he died of pneumonia and was buried in 1906.
Notable People
Big Nose Kate (Mary Kate Horony), paramour of Doc Holliday
Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman
George W. P. Hunt- Arizona Territorial governor and first governor of the State of Arizona
Helen Jacobs - tennis player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1962
Donald Lee - Major League Baseball pitcher[12]
Anton LaVey - author of The Satanic Bible, and the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan
Rose Perica Mofford- Arizona's first female governor
Sarah Herring Sorin- Arizona's first female attorney
Guadalupe
Since its founding, it has been known as a center of Yaqui culture and it is home to many religious festivals
Holbrook
After the appearance of a smoke trail in the sky on July 19, 1912, a meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kilograms exploded over the town of Holbrook, and a shower of stones fell from the sky, estimated to number more than 16,000 and varying in weight from 6.6 kilograms to less than 0.1 grams.
Petrified Forest National Park is located 28 miles (45 km) east of Holbrook, the nearest city to the park.
Bucket of Blood Street was named the sixth wackiest street name according to a 2006 poll by Car Connection website
Jerome
Notable People
Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of the band Tool.
Katie Lee, folk singer
Fred Rico, major league baseball player
Litchfield Park
Warren A. Morton, Wyoming oilman and former Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Mammoth
Notable People
Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, pioneer Arizona schoolteacher and author (Woman in Levis's, etc.), lived much of her life in the vicinity, at her homestead in Peppersauce Canyon near San Manuel, and later at her ranch on Copper Creek near Mammoth, where she died in 1984.
Jack Elam - Actor
Miami
Notable People
Romana Acosta Bañuelos - Treasurer of the United States under Richard Nixon
Joe Castro - jazz pianist
Jack Elam – actor, partly known for having lazy-eye, who was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers
Rueben Martinez – activist and MacArthur Fellow
Esteban Edward Torres – ambassador and politician
"Oklahoma Movie Poster
Nogales
Nogales, Arizona, was the filming location for the motion picture version of the musical, Oklahoma! (1955). Nogales was chosen because it looked more like turn-of-the-century Oklahoma (when the musical is set) more than anywhere in Oklahoma did at that time. Oklahoma itself had apparently become far too developed by 1955. It was made an "honorary" part of the state of Oklahoma for the duration of the film shoot by order of the governor of Arizona.
A small part of William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum short story refers to the city of Nogales.
Also, the 1951 biblical motion picture David and Bathsheba was filmed here.
Nogales was mentioned as a border crossing point in Carlos Castaneda's "Don Juan" series, and a gateway into the Mexican Yaqui communities of Sonora.
Nogales is also mentioned in MIB (Men in Black) 2 and recently in a Playstation 3 video game: MAG. Massive Action Gaming.
Notable People
Thomas Aranda, Jr. - US Ambassador to Uruguay 1981-85, b. 4/9/1934.
Bob Baffert - Champion horse breeder and trainer, b. 1/13/1953.
Andrew Leo Bettwy - Arizona State Land Commissioner 1970-78, b. 5/31/1920, d. 12/1/2004.
Louis Arana Serratrice - Retired French professor, NHS Hall of Fame
José Canchola - Businessman, philanthropist. First Hispanic McDonald's franchise owner.
Movita Castaneda - Actress best known for being the second wife of actor Marlon Brando.
Gil Heredia - Ten year Major League Baseball pitcher and University of Arizona Sports Hall of Fame member. Born 1965.
Travis Edmonson - of 1960's influential folk duo "Bud & Travis"
John Frederick (Jack) Hannah - Academy Award winning Disney Studios artist and director.
Elena Mix Johnson - Still life and landscape artist.
Emilia Arana - Abstract artist.
Christine McIntyre - Actress. Starred in 22 feature films. Most notably as supporting character in Three Stooges movies.
Charles Mingus - Jazz bass player, composer, and bandleader, b. 4/22/1922 in Nogales, d. 1/5/1979.
Alberto Alvaro Ríos - Author, poet. Won the 1981 Walt Whitman award for "Whispering to Fool the Wind"
Roger Smith - Husband to Movie star Ann Margret
Verita Bouvaire-Thompson - Actress, hairdresser.Humphrey Bogart's mistress from 1942 to 1955.
J. (James) David Lowell - One of the world's most successful exploration geologists and is 2003's 30th recipient of the Penrose Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to economic geology. b. February 1928.
J.P.S. (Joseph Paul Summers) Brown - Journalist, Marine veteran, renowned cattleman, 1952 University of Notre Dame graduate and book author. Based on his own experiences, his two best known books from the 1970s "Jim Kane" (made into the movie "Pocket Money" that starred Paul Newman and Lee Marvin) and "The Outfit" are classics today. b.1930.
Jack (John Woolf) O'Conner - The longtime firearms editor for "Outdoor Life" magazine, O'Connor hunted and collected trophies throughout the world, and introduced millions of readers to hunting and firearms. His influence, both directly and indirectly, on sporting and American sportsmen was considerable. b. January 22, 1902, d. January 20, 1978.
Page
Several films have been shot in the Page area including: Into the Wild (2007) Hulk (2003) Eight Legged Freaks (2002) Evolution (2000) Planet of the Apes (2000) Broken Arrow (1996) Maverick (1994) Highway to Hell (1990) Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) Superman III (1983) Thunder Warrior (1983) Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Planet of the Apes (1968) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Charles Keating - Reagan appointee and figure in the Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal
Nikolai Khabibulin - Ice hockey goaltender
Steve Nash - Basketball player
Stevie Nicks - Singer
Leslie Nielsen – Actor
Sandra Day O'Connor - Former Justice of the US Supreme Court
Dan Quayle - Former US Vice-President
Paolo Soleri - Visionary Italian-American architect
Peter Sperling - Businessman
Don Stewart- Head of Don Stewart Ministries/Association[6]
Mike Tyson - Boxer
Erma Bombeck - Humorist
Charles Boyer - Actor
Barry Goldwater - U.S. Senator
Jesse Owens – Sprinter
William Rehnquist - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Patagonia
Notable People
Philip Caputo, author
Dinesh D'Souza, conservative author and speaker (former resident)
Jim Harrison, U.S. novelist, poet, and food critic, who famously called Patagonia "preposterously beautiful"
Payson
In 1918 author Zane Grey made his first trip to the area surrounding Payson. He would come back with regularity through 1929, and would purchase two plots of land near Tonto Creek, including 120 acres (0.49 km2) from Sampson Elam Boles under Myrtle Point. Grey wrote numerous books about the area and also filmed some movies, such as To the Last Man, in the Payson area in the 1920s.
Hadji Ali Grave
Quartzsite
Nine major gem, mineral, and 15 general swap meet shows are very popular tourist attractions, attracting about 1.5 million people annually,[5] mostly in January and February.
Quartzsite is the burial place of Hi Jolly (Hadji Ali), an Ottoman citizen of Greek-Syrian parentage, who took part in the experimental US Camel Corps as a camel driver.
Safford
Observatories - Due to Safford's relatively isolated position, the area has been chosen as a prime spot for hosting observatories. Safford and Thatcher's street lights are even low-output to improve the quality of the images taken by the observatories atop the mountain to the southwest of the city.
The mountain for which the county is named, Mount Graham, is just a few miles southwest of the city. The mountain is home to the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) and Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT. It, when completed, will be the largest binocular telescope in the world. The mountain also is home to the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, or VATT. It is also home to the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope, or SMT. The Mount Graham International Observatory complex is operated by the University of Arizona.
In popular culture Safford is the setting for the 1985 Albert Brooks comedy Lost In America. Safford is also the setting for the Jim W. Coleman book "Omens."
Notable People
D.J. Carrasco - MLB Pitcher for the Chicago White Sox
Michael Ensign - Actor
Elliot Johnson - MLB second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays
Fred Mortensen - Former NFL quarterback for the Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins
Sahuarita
Sahuarita contains the Titan Missile Museum, built in 1963 during the height of the Cold War, which is the only Titan Missile site in the world accessible to the public. The actual Titan II missile, the most powerful nuclear missile on standby in the US, remains in the silo for visitors to see.
The Sahuarita Airstrip continued to be used by the U.S. Airforce throughout most of the Cold War
Sedona
Sedona's main attraction is its stunning array of red sandstone formations, the Red Rocks of Sedona
References in popular culture Sedona is mentioned in the Pixies song "Havalina", the last song on their album Bossanova. The lyrics are: "Walking in the breeze / On the plains of old Sedona / Arizona / Among the trees." The Electro group Dynamix II released a single by the name of "Sedona." Aerosmith recorded a song called "Sedona Sunrise" released on their 2006 compilation Devil's Got a New Disguise. The lyrics and laidback tone of the song were apparently inspired by the songwriters' visit to Sedona. Inspired by the gorgeous rock formations surrounding the town, music composer Steven Reineke wrote a piece which he named "Sedona." In Jamie O'Neal's love ballad, "There Is No Arizona", Jamie belts out the name Sedona in the chorus, "There is no Arizona. No painted desert, no Sedona."
Since the 2007 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks professional baseball club, which plays its home games in Phoenix, has had uniforms dominated by a shade of red called "Sedona Red."
Published in 2007, the novel Devil's Bridge by Greg Lilly sets the climatic scene on the Devil's Bridge trail near Sedona, Arizona.
Laughing Colors frontman Dave Tieff wrote a song called "Sedona" on his first studio solo album, The Art of Peace.
A fictional motorsports venue named Sedona Raceway Park is featured in Forza Motorsport 3
Disney's Thunder Mt. water ride is modeled after Grayback Mt, the highest monolith in Sedona. In tribute to this, a sign that reads, "Sedona Mining Company" is part of the scenery of the Thunder Mt. ride.
There is a specialized New Age tourist industry in Sedona, where the "Harmonic Convergence" was organized by Jose Arguelles in 1987. Some purport that "spiritual vortices" (local vernacular is "vortexes") are concentrated in the Sedona area at Bell Rock, Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, and Boynton Canyon
Notable People
Samaire Armstrong[citation needed]
Sharon Stone owns a second home in Sedona.[citation needed]
Michelle Branch
Sedona native Ted Danson[citation needed]
Justin Frankel Sedona native[citation needed]
Stanley Jordan[citation needed]
Diane Ladd owns a second home in Sedona.
Gerard Maguire[citation needed]
U.S. Sen. John McCain, (R-Arizona) owns a ranch southwest of the city.
Al Pacino owns a second home in Sedona.[citation needed]
Debbie Reynolds owns a vacation home in Sedona.[citation needed]
Jane Russell[citation needed]
Glenn Scarpelli openly gay American actor (of One Day at a Time fame) and co-proprietor of the Sedona Now television network Robert Shields Shields and Yarnell
Eric Byrnes[citation needed]
Notable former residents
Lucille Ball[citation needed]
Joe Beeler lived and worked in Sedona, 1961-2006.
Max Ernst lived in Sedona from 1948 to 1953 with his fourth wife, the artist Dorothea Tanning.
James Gregory[citation needed]
Ann Miller owned a Sedona vacation home[citation needed]
Lois Moran[citation needed]
Donald O'Connor[citation needed]
Israel Regardie died in Sedona in 1985.
Orson Welles[citation needed]
Deborah Walley[citation needed]
Mary Wills[citation needed]
Sean Young lived in Sedona in the '90s[citation needed]
Jack Frye resident Sedona 1941 to 1950, founder of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (TWA)
Walt Disney Cartoonist, Founder Disneyland/World amusment parks
Gail Edward, actress, Its A Living
Show Low
Notable People
Dan Deublein — American actor from the television series Beverly Hills 90210.
Snowflake
The logging crew involved in the Travis Walton abduction incident lived in this town, and several events surrounding that incident happened here. These events were dramatized in the 1993 science fiction film Fire in the Sky.[6][7]
References to Snowflake are made in the 2001 murder mystery Brigham City, and the 2004 war film Saints and Soldiers.
Springerville
Casa Malpais is located near Springerville. It is a nationally recognized archeological site Both the Hopi and Zuni Indian tribes still consider Casa Malpais a sacred ancestral place.
The town contains one of the twelve Madonna of the Trail monuments created by sculptor August Leimbach
Notable natives and residents
Mark Gastineau, former football player for the New York Jets
Alex Madrid, baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies
Jerry D. Thompson, historian of the American Southwest, was born in Springerville but reared in western New Mexico.
Trivia
Ike Clanton, a major player in the events that led to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, was shot dead in Springerville by a detective named Jonas V. Brighton for resisting arrest on charges of cattle-rustling on June 1, 1887.
St. Johns
One of the city's schoolchildren, an eight-year-old boy, was in the news in November 2008 when he was charged with two counts of premeditated murder, accused of killing his father and another man with a .22-caliber rifle
St. Johns is home to the Apache County Historical Society Museum
Notable People
Rex E. Lee: U.S. Solicitor General
Brady Udall: Writer
David King Udall: Politician
Mo Udall: Politician
Stewart Udall: Politician
Superior
Such films as U Turn by Oliver Stone, Eight Legged Freaks, How the West Was Won with John Wayne and James Stewart, The Prophecy, Skinwalkers, The Gauntlet with Clint Eastwood, and Young Billy Young are set in Superior.
In 2005, a Sci-fi film named "The Salena Incident", also called "Alien Invasion Arizona," was filmed in Superior.
Thatcher
Notable People
Spencer W. Kimball, former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although not born in this community, he lived here from the age of three until his 20's.
Jess Mortensen, former coach and NCAA-champion track athlete from USC and former world record holder in decathlon.
Tombstone
Tombstone is home to perhaps the most famous graveyard of the Old West, Boot Hill. Buried at the site are various victims of violence and disease in Tombstone's early years, including those from the O.K. Corral. Boot Hill (also known as the old city cemetery) was also the destination for bad-men and those lynched or legally hanged in Tombstone
The lot in which the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurred in 1881 is also preserved, but this has been walled off, and admission is charged. However, since much of this street fight occurred in Tombstone's Fremont Street (modern Highway 80), much of this site is also viewable without admission charge.
According to Guinness, the world's largest rosebush was planted in Tombstone in 1885 and still flourishes today in the city's sunny climate. This Lady Banksia rose now covers 8,000 sq ft (740 m2) of the roof on an inn, and has a 12 ft (3.7 m) circumference trunk
Film Tombstone has lent its name to many Western movies over the years, including but not limited to Sheriff of Tombstone (1941), Bad Men of Tombstone (1949), Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958), Five Guns to Tombstone (1960), and Tombstone (1993). It has also been featured in other films; most notably of which (aside from the aforementioned Tombstone) is the biographical Wyatt Earp (1994).
Music
The Brazilian countrycore quartet Matanza have a song named Tombstone City. Bob Dylan has a song named Tombstone Blues, it appears on the album Highway 61 Revisited. Singer/songwriter Carl Perkins wrote a song titled "The Ballad Of Boot Hill", which focused on Billy Clanton's role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It was recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1965 Columbia Records album Sings the Ballads of the True West.
Television
From 1957 to 1960, Tombstone was featured in the ABC and later syndicated Western television series Tombstone Territory starring Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister and Richard Eastham as Harris Claibourne, editor of The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper.
On October 11, 2006, Tombstone was featured in episode #301 of Syfy series Ghost Hunters. The TAPS crew led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson visit the Birdcage Theatre, which was a popular night spot frequently visited by legends such as Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. TAPS tries to determine if the place is haunted by spirits of old patrons of the Old West. On July 3, 2009, the Birdcage Theatre was once again investigated for paranormal activity by the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures crew. Ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin investigate the building while being locked in overnight to find any evidence of its reported ghostly occupants.
Wickenburg
In the late 1800s, there were so many questionable mining promotions around Wickenburg, that the joke grew that whoever drank from the Hassayampa River was thenceforth unable to speak the truth. Hassayamper came to mean a teller of tall tales.[7]
By 1910, Wickenburg became the local team to beat in baseball, amassing a record of 25-0. When many of these players enlisted or were drafted in the Army for WWI, they formed a team within their unit. During basic training at Fort Huachuca, they would "talk trash" to other units about how good they were in baseball. They would do this specifically to the Buffalo Soldiers stationed at the base. However, when they began to play other teams from other units they could not win, getting a record of 0-6. Each of these losses were from the mercy rule. They were defeated by the Buffalo Soldiers 23-0 in 4 innings. Around the base the term "Got Wickenburged" came to mean crushed in defeat and lasted until the end of the war
Willcox
Willcox is also known as the birthplace of Rex Allen, known as "The Arizona Cowboy," who wrote and recorded many songs, starred in several westerns during the early 1950s and in the syndicated television series Frontier Doctor (1958-1959).
Willcox was among the locations of another syndicated western series 26 Men (1957-1959), true stories of the Arizona Rangers starring Tristram Coffin and Kelo Henderson. In 26 Men, the town is spelled "Wilcox".
Williams
Because of its location near the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Williams is a major tourist stop and has many inns and motels
Williams, Arizona would go down in history as being the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed
Winslow
It achieved national fame in 1972 in the Eagles song “Take it Easy" which had the verse “standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
The nearby Meteor Crater, sometimes known as the Barringer Crater and formerly as the Canyon Diablo crater, is a famous impact crater.
Standin' On The Corner Park, a park featuring murals depicting the famous "Girl my lord in a flatbed Ford" Winslow also has an annual Standin' on the Corner street festival, traditionally held the last week of September.
Winslow is also home to the 9-11 Remembrance Gardens, a memorial honoring those who lost their lives during the September 11th terrorist attacks. The memorial was constructed using two beams recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in New York City.
Bill Engvall also alludes to the city of Winslow in his video for "Here's Your Sign".
Notable People
Erika Alexander, actress
Bill Engvall, comedian[9]
Nick Hysong, gold medallist in pole vault at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games
Richard Kleindienst, United States Attorney General under Richard Nixon
