Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896. Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to beg…
Tag: Cochise
Curly Bill Brocius Newspapers referred to Curly Bill as "the terror of Cochise County".
The outlaws of Cochise County during the 1880s were a hard breed and the fact that Curly Bill was one of their leaders s…
Brothers to the End Tom Jeffords and Cochise had an unbreakable bond.
Tom Jeffords is best known as an Indian agent in Arizona Territory—and for his close relationship with Apache Chief Coch…
A Cochise-led Apache Ambush
It was July 15, 1862, and Union Captain Thomas Roberts led a column of volunteers into Apache Pass in southeast Arizona.…
No One Steals from Barton’s Joint
Jerry Barton was associated with the Cow-boy faction in southeast Arizona. He ran a bar in the town of Charleston—a Cow…
Western Legend Review of Doug Hocking's story Tom Jeffords: Friend of Cochise
Following the 16th-century Spanish entrada into the future states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, centuries of war and…
Was Cochise County Sheriff John Behan a Crook?
Was Cochise County Sheriff John Behan a crook? Rocky Strong – Sherman, Texas. Behan was certainly a glad-handing, backsl…
Chief Mangas Coloradas
In early 1861, the great Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas went to a mining camp at Santa Rita in New Mexico. He was going t…
Tombstone’s True Hero Jim Young served his country honorably before settling down in Arizona’s legendary burg.
In the spring of 1896, during the manhunt for the Apache Kid, Arizona’s most wanted, Tombstone surveyor H.G. Howe recomm…
First in War, First in Peace
Perhaps the greatest chief of the Chiricahua Apaches who ever lived, Cochise fought his way through southeastern Arizona…