Bill Beck was a well-known character to the bartenders around Arizona. He’d studied law as a young man in Texas but didn’t practice long. No sooner than he opened an office the court assigned him to defend a cow thief who had no money. The thief took one look at him and said, “I plead guilty.” Bill said the blatant lack of faith from his first client caused him to quit practicing law and go to punching cattle. Somewhere along the way Bill had been shot making one leg considerably s


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