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Arizona’s First Boomtown
Gila City disintegrated fast. The ruins proved inspiring to some and portentous for others. Shortly after Christmas in 1863, a party of...
The Hucksters
The lawless Arizona Territory attracted the wide gamut of frontier con men ranging from card sharks to stock swindlers out to prove P.T. Barnum was...
The Payback
A robbery victim almost had to reimburse the stolen money. May 11, 1889. A contingent of Buffalo Soldiers, led by Major Joseph Wham, are attacked...
The Hucksters
The lawless Arizona Territory attracted the wide gamut of frontier con men ranging from card sharks to stock swindlers out to prove P.T. Barnum was...
Barbarians at the Quartz Rock
A crowd celebrated the first shot poured on Prescott’s Whiskey Row. Then and now, Prescott, Arizona’s, great calling card has been Whiskey Row. For...
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...
The Cavanaugh-Snyder Gang
America’s wide-open West is marked by reminders of its legendary, lawless frontier days. Apache County in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800s...
A Bad Boss
Commodore Perry Owens—as sheriff of Apache County, Arizona Territory—had a reputation as a deadly man. But he was also known as a bad boss. Less...
A Very Dangerous Man
Commodore Perry Owens already had a reputation as a dangerous man by the time he put on a badge in 1887. He claimed he killed 14 rustlers as a stock...
What Led to the O.K. Corral Gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory?
What led to the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory? Axel Doling Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The lead-up is pretty...