
In 1859, Arizona’s first newspaper, The Arizonian, reported on a duel in Tubac, Arizona. An estimated 1,000 men from the area showed up, including sporting men from Tucson, farmers from the Santa Cruz River and “almost everybody connected with the various mines.” An eyewitness is quoted as saying: “Everybody, as a matter of course, was ‘en grand toilette,’ i.e. two six shooters and a bowie knife around the waist.”
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In 1999, Bob Boze Bell and partners bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bell has published and illustrated books on Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Classic Gunfights, an Old West gunfight book series. His latest books are The 66 Kid and True West Moments.