I’ve read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case? Chuck Sawyer Phoenix, Arizona I’ve never been a big fan of John Harris Behan, mainly because of his role in the Cochise County War, but he was an interesting character. Like his nemesis Wyatt Earp, he came West as a young man. He joined the California Column during the Civil War and fought with the Union volunteers at Apache Pass in 1862. A year later, he was in Tucson as a freig


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