What happened to Mart “Old Man” Blevins of the Pleasant Valley War?
Gail Marcroft
Concho, Arizona
I wrote about the fate of Mart “Old Man” Blevins in my new book, Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen. He disappeared during the range war fought between two feuding ranching families, the Grahams and Tewksburys, that history has recorded as the Pleasant Valley War. Here is an excerpt:
“In June, 1887, Andy, Charley and Hamp [Blevins] left the Canyon Creek ranch and rode to Holbrook for
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