The visit to the Yuma Territorial Prison was meant to spur a bit of Old West nostalgia. We were in the Arizona desert over the Christmas holiday visiting family. The prison was built on a bluff ...

In 1877 William Jordan Flake was arrested for unlawful plural marriage and served six months in Yuma, Arizona’s, famed prison. Flake lived the rest of his life in Snowflake, Arizona, with his two ...

"The prison is a legacy of Old West history, and it's very important to look at the past and understand what life was like back then," Torres said. At least for now, "3:10 to Yuma" is getting more ...

The Yuma Territorial Prison has a dubious reputation as one of the state's haunted hotspots; Most of the 111 deaths at the site were from tuberculosis, which was common during that era ...

Down the road from the prison and also part of the state park system is the Yuma Quartermaster Depot. Established in 1864, the depot supplied frontier Army posts in Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

YUMA, Ariz. — It’s not hard to envision why prisoners called this place the “Hell Hole.”The cells of the old Yuma Territorial Prison look medieval with their iron bars, bare floors and ...

I was spending the night in an allegedly haunted prison in Yuma, Ariz. How I got here goes back to October 2021, when I received an email from a stranger named Lowell W. Perry Jr.

Historians know the Old West wasn’t nearly as wild and untamed as John Wayne movies have us ... Yuma hosts the annual competition Jan. 9-10 at Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park ...

The prison’s museum displays old pictures dating back to that time. It also has vintage Yuma high gear displaying the school’s mascot, the Yuma Criminals, inspired by the school’s unique ...