In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented Arizona’s transition from
lawless frontier to civilization. In 1861, the U. S. Army was withdrawn
from Arizona to fight in the Civil War that raged in the East. The
Apache and other lawless elements seized the opportunity to ravage
the settlers in Arizona. Travelers were murdered daily on the roads
leading out of Tucson. The bloody road that passed by Pete’s ra
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