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What do you know about a southern Arizona rancher named Pete Kitchen?

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

What do you know about a southern Arizona rancher named Pete Kitchen?       Barry WaldbaumCentereach, New York In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented Arizona’s transition from lawless frontier to civilization. He settled in the territory in 1854, when it was truly a wild and wooly place. In 1861, when the U.S. Army was withdrawn from Arizona to fight in the Civil War, the Apache and other lawless elements seized the opportunity to ravage the settlers. Travelers were murdered daily on the ro


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