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Taylor is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded by settlers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in January 1878, several months before the neighboring community of Snowflake. Taylor straddles Silver Creek, flowing from the nearby White Mountains to the Little Colorado River on Arizona's Colorado Plateau.
James Pearce was appointed by Erastus Snow, a Mormon Apostle, [2] to begin the colonization process of the Silver Creek Valley in Arizona. During his journey he stopped at James Stinson's Ranch. Stinson was developing his land and according to Pearce, he asked for too much money and therefore Pearce moved three miles further down and set up a camp.
Pleasant Valley is located in Gila County, Arizona, but many of the events related to this feud took place in neighboring Apache and Navajo counties. Other neighborhood Arizona parts, such as Holbrook and Globe, were the setting of its bloodiest battles. Although the feud was originally fought between the Tewksburys and the Grahams against the ...
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Taylor Elementary School in the neighboring town of Taylor, ... Marilyn Jarrett (1939–2006), Arizona businesswoman and politician, was born in Snowflake. [13]
Aztec Land and Cattle Company, Limited ("Aztec") is a land company with a historic presence in Arizona.It was formed in 1884 and incorporated in early 1885 as a cattle ranching operation that purchased 1,000,000 acres in northern Arizona from the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.
Cochise County in southeastern Arizona was the scene of a number of violent conflicts in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West, including between white settlers and Apache Indians, between opposing political and economic factions, and between outlaw gangs and local law enforcement.
Navajo County (Navajo: Tʼiisyaakin Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo) is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 106,717. [1] The county seat is Holbrook. [2] Navajo County comprises the Show Low, Arizona Micropolitan Statistical Area.