George Ruffner was Yavapai County’s perennial sheriff. He was a top notch peace officer and an expert tracker; it was said he could track “bees in a blizzard,” and he nearly always “got his man.” He liked being sheriff but he hated having to make campaign speeches. Politics to him was extremely distasteful. At heart he was an old cowboy and was most uncomfortable having to stand on


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