Horsethief Basin, high in Arizona’s Bradshaw Mountains gets its name because rustlers used to steal horses in Mexico, central and southern Arizona, drive them up to the forested basin to holding corrals and alter their brands would drive them north to Utah and Colorado where they’d sell them. Then, just to show no favoritism they’d steal horses up there, drive them to Horsethief Basin and re-bra


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