“Lord” Darrell Duppa was an adventurer, world traveler, scholar and gifted elocutionist. He wasn’t really a lord but the folks around Phoenix in the 1860s gave him the title because he was a well-educated Englishman, actually he was born in France. He was fluent in five languages but unfortunately when he was in his cups, which was usually, he spoke all five in the same paragraph. It’s believed he


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