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Swilling and the Rangers

Swilling and the Rangers

A founder of Phoenix also started a territorial militia. Arizona’s first Rangers may have been led one of the founders of Phoenix, Jack Swilling. In...

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Harry Wheeler

Harry Wheeler

This is Not Your Usual Hollywood-Style Gunfight Harry Wheeler was a Roughrider in the Spanish-American War with Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders but...

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Burt Mossman’s Rangers Part 1

Burt Mossman’s Rangers Part 1

Burt Mossman was Governor Murphy's choice to be the first captain of the Arizona Rangers.  The rawhide-tough cowman had made quite a reputation for...

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Birth of the Arizona Rangers

Birth of the Arizona Rangers

Arizona greeted the 20th Century as a frontier Jekyll and Hyde.  On one hand, communities like Phoenix, Prescott and Tucson were becoming modern...

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Armed and Courageous

Armed and Courageous

Private Bill Foster wears his Arizona Ranger badge and holds the standard Ranger 1895 Winchester .30-40 lever-action rifle as he stands to the left...

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