The history of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War has been written about from a number of various angles and points of view beginning with Zane Grey’s fictitious account in 1921, “To the Last Man.” In 1936, after spending time in Pleasant Valley, Earle R. Forrest wrote “Arizona’s Dark and Bloody Ground.” There was much speculation on the part of writers as to what caused the two families, who’d been friends to become bitter enemies. The most popular theme was it was a sheepmen-c


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