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Back and Forth

by | Jun 27, 2019 | True West Blog

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Billy Stiles couldn’t decide which side of the law to work. In the early 1890s, he served as a tracker for Cochise County (AZ) lawmen John Slaughter and Jeff Milton. But by 1899, Stiles joined up with the gang of another former deputy, Burt Alvord, robbing trains. In and out of jail, Stiles briefly served as an Arizona Ranger before going bad again. By 1908, he was a Nevada deputy sheriff under t


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