Andy Cooper

Looking at his photo Andy “Cooper” Blevins looks like a nice boy, but behind that façade was a young man mean enough to eat off the same plate with a rattlesnake. He was the oldest son of Mart “Old Man” Blevins four sons. The family came to Arizona from Texas sometime in the mid-1880s to engage in the business of stealing livestock.  Soon they were driving stolen horses from Utah and Colorado to their ranch on Canyon Creek some 75 miles south of Holbrook. He was known to have killed mo