Arizona greeted the arrival of the 20th century like a frontier Jekyle and Hyde. The communities like Phoenix and Tucson were becoming cosmopolitan but the country along the Mexican border and the New Mexico line were still tied to a wild and woolly past. The wild Blue River country along the New Mexico border was one of the last sanctuaries in the West for bands of cattle rustlers.
Arizona’s notorious reputation as a habitat of rattlesnakes, scorpions, cactus, renegade Apaches, cattle rust
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