Josiah “Joe” Hazen is best known for leading a posse that chased the Wild Bunch after the gang robbed a Union Pacific tr…
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Territorial Sheriffs
Arizona was the last of the refuge of the drifting lawmen and desperadoes of the Old West. Its wild country, lack of ro…
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…
John Slaughter
John Slaughter was one of the many Texas cattlemen who drove their herds to the virgin ranges of Arizona in the 1870’s. …
Fred Lambert
Fred Lambert was a New Mexico deputy sheriff at age 16, later a sheriff, a member of the state’s mounted police, rancher…