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What’s the Story Behind the Naming of Show Low, Arizona?

by | Dec 1, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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What’s the story behind the naming of Show Low, Arizona? Michael Westlund, Clarkdale, Arizona Anthony Cooley, the former president of the Pinetop-Lakeside Historical Society and the great-grandson of the storied C.E. Cooley, is the best source of the history on the card game that brought about the name for Show Low, Arizona. The popular story is one that traces to Will C. Barnes, who claimed that, while he was stationed at Fort Apache in 1880, C.E. told him this tale: C.E. and Marion Clar


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