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...
Swilling and the Rangers
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Jeff Kidder vs. Naco Policia
“If my ammunition had not given out, I might have served them the same way.”