These days, the name is on a Las Vegas casino and a Dawson City theater, but folks in Yuma, Arizona, knew the real man behind the name. He was born Abraham Henson Meadows in the early 1860s, but branded himself “Arizona Charley,” and touted himself as “King of the Cowboys.” He appeared first with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and later started his own Arizona Charlie Wild West Show. In the late 1890s, he was found in Dawson City, Canada, hoping to get rich off the Klondike Gold Rush—
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