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Opening Shots in Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War

by | Jun 6, 2018 | True West Blog

The Pleasant Valley War had its beginnings around 1880 when a man named Jim Stinson moved a large herd of cattle into Pleasant Valley. The remote valley was nestled beneath the Mogollon Rim, seventy-five miles northeast of Globe and a three-day trip by wagon. The railroad town of Holbrook was ninety miles north of the valley. The county seat at Prescott was a hundred and fifty miles to the west over rough


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