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Abel Stearns (top left) purchased Rancho los Alamitos in 1842. To the original hilltop adobe, he added a north wing, shown here, featuring a gabled roof and wood siding and floors. By the time this 1887 photo was taken, Stearns had long left the ranch due to financial reversals after losing thousands of cattle during the 1863-64 drought. John Bixby (bottom left) and his two partners were running the ranch.
– Courtesy Rancho los Alamitos Foundation; Stearns portrait courtesy Huntington Library of San Marino, California –

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Burros, the “ships of the desert,” were indispensable in hauling heavy loads of ore across scorching deserts and treacherous mountain terrain. This is a W.S. Smith photo of a burro train bringing gold from mines near Ouray, Colorado.
– Courtesy Library of Congress –

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Pushin’ and Pullin’
One way or another, these men were bound and determined to get this stubborn burro on the move through Cave Creek.
– All images courtesy Cave Creek Museum
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Gunnin’ Granny
Catherine “Cattle Kate” Jones wasn’t interested in shuffleboard and golf when she hit retirement age. This picture taken in the 1960s—when Jones was well into her 70s—shows the Cahava Ranch owner with a weapon at her side and still on duty as Cave Creek’s deputy sheriff.

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April 1 at 8:39pm

The gentleman bandit, Black Bart, caught the eyes of collectors in 2012 when a circa 1883 cabinet card of the stagecoach robber went up for bid at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction. The winning bid came in at $42,500, a sum the robber would have considered princely.
– Courtesy Brian Lebel’s
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April 1 at 7:30pm

Tragedy on the Butterfield Line

Tragedy on the Butterfield Line - True West Magazine

On September 8th, 1858, during construction of the Butterfield Stage Station at Dragoon Springs in Cochise County, Butterfield employees Silas St. John...

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Oscar Perez I lived in the Hueco ranch and the butterfield stage road was on the property. When I was little I remember after a good rain a bunch of bones were washed out. My dad just reburried what was left on the other side of the wash. Someone on the stage died and they dug a grave next to the road and left.

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Jonathan Beard The minute I read this article, I knew it sounded familiar. This is discribed in the first half of the book "Blood Brother" by Elliott Arnold. The second half of Arnold's book was made into the 1950 movie "Broke Arrow" starring Jeff Chandler and James Stewart......

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April 1 at 5:42pm

A Legendary Horseback Duel

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In 1835, a French-Canadian trapper, Joseph Chouinard, went looking for Americans to bully at the annual trapper’s rendezvous and stumbled upon Kit Carson.

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April 1 at 4:00pm

The Death of Jim Talbot

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Jim Talbot—real name James Sherman—finally got his. In 1881, he engineered a huge gunfight in Caldwell, KS that killed lawman/mayor Mike Meagher.

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Rick Mikulski read the second article regarding the forced migration of the the Wyandotte Indians from northern Ohio to KCity area. This and the Cherokee Trail of Tears was orchestrated by Andrew Jackson, who hated the American Indian. And yet, he will stay on the $20 bill. And Hamilton, 1st Treasury Secretary is being bounced. Outrageous.

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