The U.S. Cavalry’s first official-issue saber—the Model 1833, although graceful and handsome, was disliked by the troops…
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“Ain’t Suited for the Government” A gunfighter had to give up his Quaker roots.
Commodore Perry Owens is best known for killing three men in a Holbrook, AZ gunfight in 1887. He reportedly had a number…
The Railroad Comes to Holbrook The birth of the Hashknife
Holbrook, Arizona, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and Little Colorado rivers and straddling the new Atlantic …
Sheriff With a Deadly Addiction An Arizona Territory lawman with a penchant for gambling and opium, Frank Wattron crashed and burned.
Francis Joseph Wattron, born February 5, 1861, in Hermann, Missouri, was a small boy when the town’s alarm bells signale…
The Storied Hashknife
With the arrival of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1881 Holbrook, located at the junction of the Rio Puerco and …
The Shoot Out in Holbrook
For newly-elected Apache County Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens, events were moving rapidly towards his rendezvous with de…
Holbrook, Arizona
Before the railroad arrived in 1881, Holbrook, located where the Rio Pureco joined the Little Colorado, was known as Hor…