The Arizona Rangers were established as a territorial law enforcement agency in 1901 to curb the outlawry that was rampart in Arizona’s rural mountain country, especially in the rugged mountains along its eastern border with New Mexico and also along the Mexican border from Nogales east to Naco.
Their first mission was to break up gangs of livestock thieves. In 1903 the territorial governor even sent th

True West April 2020
In This Issue:
Features
- Brothers in Blood: Jesse James and Billy the Kid
- Jesse James: The Birth of a Killer
- Birth of an Outlaw Hero
- Special Classic Gunfights: Shoot-out at Stinking Springs
- True West Exclusive: Long Lost Jailhouse Interview with Billy the Kid and Illustration Uncovered
- To Hell on a Fast Horse – Ten Years On
- And Die Like a Soldier
- Western Movies Special: Rebel Raider to Rebel Hero
- On the Road Again
- Black Hills Gold
- Strike it Rich
- Across the Old Southwest
- Gold in Those Wyoming Hills
- Pillars of the Plains
- History Haunts Nevada’s Byways