Aug. 21 in Arizona Historical past | Way of life

In 1865, Fort Mason was established and named after Gen. John S. Mason, navy commander of Arizona Territory.

In 1903, a cloudburst within the San Francisco Mountains despatched an 8-foot-8 wall of water over Flagstaff-area farms.

In 1914, regulation officers of Phoenix, Ray, Florence and Superior led posses via Pinal County mountains in the hunt for a band of outlaws who had killed a deputy sheriff. Seventeen folks have been killed in a sequence of 4 gun battles.

In 1928, Cintotle, the chief Drugs Man of the San Carlos Apache Reservation christened a aircraft entered by Graham County within the transcontinental air race. The aircraft was named “Apache Chief.”