Nobody was going to sneak up on ol’ Tap Duncan on the Diamond Bar Ranch, tucked away as it was in a remote corner of Arizona’s Mohave County. Anybody wanting to find him had to negotiate the narrow confines of Grapevine Canyon and ride up to his front door. Anybody thinking about sneaking up behind Tap had a bigger canyon to negotiate—the Western rim of Grand Canyon lies five miles east of the ranch. At the edge, it’s a mile straight down to the Colorado River. Tap had re


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