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Arizona Sonoran News

Bolo ties hanging up.

Comeback Season: The Bolo Tie

Zoe Wesley May 2, 2018

This festival season, the bolo tie is getting a makeover. The bolo tie gained immense popularity throughout the southwest in the early 30s and became the official neckwear of Arizona in 1973. The...

Visitors wait outside the O.K. Corral in anticipation for the gunfight show on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 in Tombstone, Ariz. The O.K. Corral reenacts the famous gunfight shown in the movie Tombstone. (Photo by: Kayla Belcher/ Arizona Sonora News)

Locals anticipate Tombstone’s demise

Kayla Belcher February 14, 2018
Kayla Belcher is a reporter for Arizona Sonora News, a service from the School of Journalism with the University of Arizona. Contact her at [email protected].
Cowboy Ed Keeylocko grasps onto his double shot of 1800 Silver Tequila, as he sits on a barstool in the Blue Dog Saloon of Cowtown Keeylocko on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (Photographed by Mackenize Boulter)

Sunset days of Cowboy Keeylocko

Mackenzie Boulter May 1, 2017

                    Ed Keeylocko, 85, is living his legend of the Wild West. With cactus green eyes, red hair and...

John Wayne, the famous actor who played in several acclaimed Western films throughout his career.

Arizona dude ranches meet Hollywood

McKinzie Frisbie December 15, 2015

Humans are notorious for their insatiable desire to ride off into the sunset. And there’s one vacation just over the hillside that gives greenhorns and tenderfoots alike the chance to and rope and ride...

Tombstone saddlemaker keeps fading art form alive

Tombstone saddlemaker keeps fading art form alive

Yuji Miyaji October 29, 2015

Walk into Tombstone Old West Books and sense years of cowboy history. Stroll toward the back. Past the many rust-colored saddles with detailed designs of flowers, stars and other intricate patterns. Listen...

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