William Whitney Brazelton is well known for his stagecoach holdups and unorthodox choice of armaments. What many don’t know, is that “Brazen Bill” made a brief appearance in Prescott, Arizona as a confidence man.
In 1876, one year before the capitol would be moved back to Prescott from Tucson, Bill arrived in town. It wasn’t long before he made it known that for the price of a coach ticket, he would “swallow a wagon wheel” whole. Brazelton had passed through town before at the hea
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