Following the fatal shootout with the Tewksbury’s and Jim Roberts at the Middleton Ranch, John Blevins had some second t…
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An Unpleasant Day in Pleasant Valley “There’s a war going on down there.”
On a hot July day in 1887, Mart “Old Man” Blevins left his ranch on Canyon Creek to look for some missing horses. When …
War Clouds Gather The Graham's and the Tewksbury's in the Pleasant Valley War.
James Dunning “JD” Tewksbury and his four sons arrived in Pleasant Valley in 1879. Several years earlier Tewksbury had s…
The Last Days of the Pleasant Valley War By mid-September Pleasant Valley War was making national news...
By mid-September Pleasant Valley War was making national news and lawmen from the Yavapai County seat at Prescott were m…
The Aftermath of the Pleasant Valley War Feuds and bad blood don’t die easily...
The “war proper,” as they called it, was over; however, assassinations and lynching’s would continue for quite some time…
Shootout at the Middleton Ranch Andy Cooper quickly saw the lucrative opportunities in the business of stealing livestock in Arizona.
Mart “Old Man” Blevins and his family arrived in the Pleasant Valley area from Texas around 1886. He and his sons, John,…
Pleasant Valley War
Feuds usually occurred in remote places and fighting flared when the law was unavailable, unable or unwilling to interve…
Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire
Cowboy Tom Horn of Pleasant Valley, Arizona, won the steer tying competition at the Globe Fourth of July Celebration in …