Publications

Perhaps The Only Book In The World, Written By The Residents Of The Community.

Available in the Portal Store & Desert Museum

Cochise County Historical Society 

The Cochise County Historical Society publishes the Cochise County Historical Journal twice a year (formerly called the Cochise Quarterly).

    The following selections offer a glimpse of a diversity of local history

    These articles are available at the Portal Library - window shelf.

    More information, more articles are available at:

                             Cochise County Historical Society

 More information and more articles are available at: CCHS P.O. Box 818, Douglas, AZ  85608     (520) 558-2580

URL : https://www.cochisecountyhistoricalsociety.org

Overview : The Cochise County Historical Society is a volunteer run organization that always has room for new volunteers. - Located in the Douglas-Williams House and Sponsors the Chocise County Genealogical Society .. including a genealogy library with reference manuals, pedigrees, books, and an index of births, deaths, and marriages published in the Douglas Daily Dispatch. 

Vol. 43, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2013: A Historic Look at the Chiricahua Mountain area of Cochise County

Vol. 45, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2015: The Soldier Naturalists

Vol. 47, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2017: Louise KImble -Matriarch of a Ranching Family
                                                   Guy Miller: The End of an Era

Vol. 51, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2021: A Ledger Helps Reveal the Ghost Town of Paradise

V21 No.2 Summer 1992  Depression days on the ranch - Maryan  Stidham

V19 No 3  Fall 1989  Pioneer Painter - Myriam Toles

V 35 No 1  Spring/Summer 2005  Little School in the Canyon

V 20 No 2  Summer 1990  Teacher at Hilltop - Maryan Stidham

V26 No 2  Summer 1996  Sew What? Club, Then until Now  - Delane Blondeau

The Glenn family: One century of Ranching in Cochise County  Bessie Mathewson

History of the Old Reed Place

V21 No 4  Winter 1992  Comments of Weldon. Heald's “Sky Island” or ”Chiricahua Mountains”  Vincent D. Roth

How I went to Portal  Myriam Toles

An 1864 Scout through the Chiricahuas  - Alden C. Hayes

V32  No2  Fall/Winter 2002/2003  Skeleton Canyon  Mary Magoffin