James Dunning “JD” Tewksbury and his four sons arrived in Pleasant Valley in 1879. Several years earlier Tewksbury had s…
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Gunfight at Cherry Creek Historians disagree on who was inside the solid-walled cabin that day.
On September 2nd, 1887, Jim Roberts, along with several members of the Tewksbury family, were at the Lower Tewksbury Ran…
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…
Gunfight at Rock Springs The Tewksbury's and Roberts watched soberly as the Graham's tossed the bodies of the dead into a crevasse and threw rocks and dirt on top.
September, 1887 had been deadly a month in the Pleasant Valley War. On the morning of the second Graham partisans includ…
Graham’s Failed Escape
Tom Graham thought he’d gotten away from the death and destruction of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War. He moved to Tempe t…