When the West Was Young





FREDERICK R. BECHDOLT



NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1922

The writer is indebted for the material in this book to a goodly number of the old-timers, from whose lips came much of which is written in the following pages, and to numerous printed works which he consulted, sometimes to authenticate data and sometimes to get additional facts.

Among the former to whom he wishes to make acknowledgment are: Former Sheriff John Ralphs, San Bernardino, California; Captain Harry C. Wheeler, Douglas, Arizona; A. M. Franklin, Tucson, Arizona; Colonel William Breckenbridge, Tucson, Arizona; Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Carnegie Institution; William Lutley, Tombstone, Arizona; Judge Duncan, Tombstone, Arizona; A. H. Gardner, Tombstone, Arizona; C. M. Cummings, Tombstone, Arizona; Andy Smith, Tucson, Arizona; Guy C. Welch, Tombstone, Arizona; Mr. and Mrs. John Slaughter, Douglas, Arizona; James East, Douglas, Arizona; Horace Stillman, Douglas, Arizona; D. F. McCarthy, Lipscomb, Texas; and the Arizona Pioneers' Association.

Among the latter are old files of the “Tombstone Epitaph” and other Arizona newspapers; Manley's “Death Valley in '49”; Upton's “Pioneers of Eldorado”; Ridge's “Life of Joaquin Murieta”; Dukes' “Famous Criminal Cases”; Farish's “History of Arizona”; McClintock's “History of Arizona”; Hittel's “History of California”; Bancroft's Works; Visscher's “Pony Express”; G. D. Bradley's “Story of the Pony Express”; “Overland Stage to California,” by F. A. Root and W. E. Connely; Inman's “Santa Fé Trail”; Humphreyville's “Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians”; Richardson's “Beyond the Mississippi”; Bourke's “On the Border With Crook”; J. Ross Brown's “Adventures in the Apache Country”; Charles Siringo's “History of Billy the Kid”; Bard's “Life of Billy Dixon, Scout and Plainsman”; Brown's “History of Texas.”