Frontier editors are a hard group to stereotype. Some were torch carriers for justice, seekers of truth and champions of liberty; others were ruthless, writing with pens seemingly dipped in acid and still others stylized their observations in a humorous, light-hearted vein. John Marion of the Prescott Miner, for example, was a political zealot. A staunch Democrat he was so incensed at Republicans engineering the move of the territorial capital to Tucson in 1867, that he supported the Democratic
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