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The Railroad Comes to Holbrook

by | Dec 19, 2017 | True West Blog

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Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, was soon to become one of the wildest cow towns in the West. Before the railroad arrived in1881, Holbrook was known as Horsehead Crossing.  Two miles east of the river crossing, Berardo Freyes ran a saloon. Travelers passing through began calling the pl


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