“Oh, it’s old Arizona again, It’s old Arizona again; With its greasers and bad, bad men,They don’t do the Boston dipBut they shoot you from the hipDown in old Arizona again.” These are the words from one verse of the old Fourth Cavalry song that give an idea of the rugged conditions in the untamed Territory of Arizona during the frontier years, when the law of the gun prevailed. Indeed, Arizona was a rough and tumble land, and firearms were much needed, not only for protection,
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