Sure, Commodore Perry Owens looked like a dude with his long hair, fancy duds and good looks.
The man was definitely stylin’. But he made his bones the hard way, going against the odds on a fall day in 1887.
Owens was sheriff of Arizona’s Navajo County during the feud known as the Pleasant Valley War; he was out to arrest Andy Blevins for rustling when he ran into resistance. Guns were drawn, shots were fired and, in a matter of seconds, Blevins and two of his kinsmen were dead, an

June 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Fullerton’s Rangers
- Best of the Badmen
- The Natural Superiority of Mules
- From Dominance to Disappearance
- The Fire Arrow
- Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
- Death Rides a Red Horse
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Holmes on the Range
- The Legacy of Conquest
- Zane Grey
- Hired Out for a Tough Hand
- Shattered Dreams and Broken Trails
More In This Issue
- Where can I find information on the outlaw known as “The Last Train Robber?”
- Broken bit & Spur
- A Soirée at the Sheridan Inn
- The Tale of Two Russells
- The Klondike Gold Rush Trail
- Phileas Fogg, Eat My Dust!
- Pike Peaked!
- The Buscadero Bio
- Did Buffalo Bill Cody ever ride for the Pony Express?
- My cowboy uncle from Arizona told me he used to clean his clothes after a cattle drive by putting them on an anthill. Was he telling me the truth?
- Can you tell me more about Western novelist Frank O’Rourke?
- In the early 1950s, Smiley Burnette came to Burnham Drive-in Theater in Burnham, Pennsylvania, and children were photographed with him. My mother refused to buy my photo. Are there any negatives/photos in a collection?
- What do you know about the children of Cynthia Ann Parker, the woman who was taken captive by the Comanches in 1836 and returned to her family in 1860?
- Looking for Joe Leaphorn
- Winchester ’73 —Take Two
- Custer, Cowboys and the Man in Black
- Carson City, Nevada