By mid-September Pleasant Valley War was making national news and lawmen from the Yavapai County seat at Prescott were moving through the area trying to arrest members of both factions.
On September 21st, 1887 Yavapai sheriff Billy Mulvenon and his joint posse consisting of deputies from Yavapai, Gila Apache and Maricopa Counties swept through Pleasant Valley and rode into Young again.
The sheriff was still smarting from an earlier visit to Pleasant Valley on August 17th, 1887. While he an
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