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.”
Related Posts
-
Tom Horn was famed as a gunman. But gun ignorance did him in. He was…
-
If proof were needed that L. Ron Hubbard could handle the Western with the flair…
-
The gunfighter is one of the most famous archetypes in Western literature, and his killing…