June 1st, 1912 the Tucson Arizona Daily Star wrote:
PRESCOTT – “Ash Fork is today as innocent as a newborn babe; she is as pure and white, morally, as the drifted snows that rim the San Franciscos.
Sixteen women of easy virtue, two of their consorts and the justice of the peace of that precinct were rounded up and taken to Prescott yesterday by Sheriff Keeler of Yavapai County and a force

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus