September, 1887 had been deadly a month in the Pleasant Valley War. On the morning of the second Graham partisans including Tom and John Graham, Andy Cooper Blevins, Charlie Blevins, John Blevins. Mote Roberts, Joe Ellenwood had ambushed and killed John Tewksbury and Bill Jacobs, then brutally mutilated their bodies at the J.D. Tewksbury ranch.
Two days later in Holbrook, Apache County Sheriff Commodor

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