Named after historian William H. Prescott, the city was designated as the capital of the Arizona Territory. It replaced the temporary capital of Fort Whipple, at the time north of present-day ...

With the advent of improved wagon roads in Yavapai County and the Arizona Territory in the late 1870s, stagecoaches and ...

Prescott was the Arizona Territory's capital, with a military post named Fort Whipple nearby to keep order. But keeping order was never easy in the territorial West. Apache raids were frequent ...