The Not So Pleasant Valley War

Welcome to Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains  I'm Larry Hedrick where we bring the past into   the present for our future viewers today we have  another great story by Hank Sheffer the Arizona   territory in turn with the superstition mountain  region holds a winning hand of cards when it comes   to discussing the topic of western expansion  Arizona has it all from its cool mountains with   lush timber rivers and streams for livestock and  fields with open rains for grazing and above all   there was new unspoiled land to be had to start a  new life away from the hell left by the civil war   whatever the reasons for coming here  Arizona held all the aces to begin our story   we must really look at the declining cattle  business in Texas that decline was stimulated   the tremendous growth in Arizona territory  during the 1880s and that very much included   the superstition mountains some 10 years  earlier a lush green valley in Sierra Ancha   had been discovered the Sierra Ancha for those  who don't know is a mountain range in Gila county   that lies between Roosevelt lake to the south  the Tonto Basin to the west Cherry Creek to the   East and Pleasant Valley to the North now if you  haven't guessed that's where we're headed we're   headed to the pleasant valley war in this story  this valley was supplied with water mainly by   Cherry Creek and Tonto creek it became a haven for  new settlers and unfortunately tagging along were   the ever-present rustlers and unsavory characters  this lush area came to be known as pleasant valley   now one of the first to be there  if not the first was James Stinson   uh he was a cattleman to settle in pleasant valley  in 1880 and he brought his cattle and people with   him that year saw the insurgence of many more  cattlemen and John dunning Tewksbury was one of   them Bostonian raised Tewksbury wandered into  Arizona sometime around 1877. before leaving   Oregon JD had prosperously bred and raced fine  horses he was a wealthy solid citizen he really   didn't need to make the move because he had all  the money he needed however as with so many others   he got that itch that needed scratching he  had to move had to go the wonderlust route   he cast out an organ packed up his family and  began seeking that elusive whatever it was   that would satisfy that itch it is believed that  JD got his first glimpse of the Pleasant Valley   from up on the Mogollon Rim while following  a herd of stolen cattle of all things   sometime after the death of his Shoshone wife  Tewksbury married an English woman on November 6   1879. Lydia Ann Krieger Schultz was a cattle owner  in Tempe Arizona a short time later he and Lydia   along with his five children from his  prior marriage John Jr, Edwin, James,   Frank and a daughter Elvira relocated to  Pleasant Valley on the East side of cherry creek   now the Graham brothers on the other hand   Tom and John came into the area and settled on  the west side of cherry creek roughly 10 miles   to the north of where the Tewksburys were located  they were later joined by their half-brother Billy   ironically both the Grahams and the  Tewksburys rode for the Stinson outfit   their first three years in the valley so  they were all together Stinson, Yewksbury   and the Graham brothers it was about this time  that things were about to change for the worst   none of the future war participants were aware  of the impending problems that would eventually   raise their ugly heads well now this is the  part where things really start getting crazy   both the Grahams and the Tewksburys began stealing  cattle from their employer James Stinson to build   up their own herds it took a lot of manpower to  run the Stinson outfit because his herd was ever   growing of course the newcomers were stealing  cattle as quickly as he was replacing them   so it didn't take long for Stinson to  finally say enough is enough in 1882 and 83   Stinson brought charges of cattle rustling against  bill and tom graham in 1884 he again accused the   grams of rustling that same year Stinson charged  the three Tewksburys Edwin James and John   along with George Blaine, Bill Richards and W.H  Bishop was stealing a hundred head of his cattle   the actions all went to court every instance  they went to court unfortunately for Stinson   all of the accused were acquitted nobody went  to jail and Stinson wound up the only loser   there was no loss between the bunch of thieves as  it turns out either the grahams hated the three   oldest Tewksbury boys and made no secret about how  they felt about the Shoshone app breeds on top of   all that it was rumored that the Graham boys had  been chasing after John's junior's pretty wife   that did not set well either all that said there  was only one thing the Tewksburys and the Grahams   really had in common they both hated sheep with  a passion unbeknownst to them at least not yet   anyway that ingredients was soon to be added to  the already heating up Arizona cattlemen's stewpot   make no mistake the woolly critters  would bring that pot to a full boil   it must be noted here that the introduction of  sheep and fences to the grazing land in Texas   were the two major reasons that the Texans had  moved to Arizona territory in the first place   the dog on sure didn't need or want that same  woolly problem again for example in 1881 that   that problem of the woolly critters we talked  about a cattleman by the name of D.A Stanford   foreclosed on a ranch near Tucson the ranch had  been owned by Thule Ocha and De long and showed   flocks numbing over thirteen thousand head of  sheep Stanford soon realized the potential of the   copious amounts of dinero that he could make  with those sheep he told his foreman John Katie   to sell off all his cattle stock and  move the sheep onto this rangeland   this turned out to be a very profitable  move but it had its drawbacks owning sheep   was dangerous and could get a man dead real quick  in 1884 the Aztec Land and Cattle Company limited   brought its Hash Knife cowboys and cattle  into the Arizona territory it was a New York   corporation comprised of investors and speculators  including railroad tycoons and wealthy businessmen   who didn't know much about cattle but by golly  they sure did know a bunch about business by   purchasing one million alternating sections of  land from the railroad they effectively tied up   more than two million acres for their own use the  land extended from Mormon lake to East of Holbrook   and from the Little Colorado river South to the  Mogollon Rim this is a big hunk of dirt people   this surly bunch of hash knife wranglers were  well known for their unscrupulous methods that   they used to keep settlers from crossing hash  knife land to reach the sections that were   legally still opened for settlement they raised  havoc with the homesteaders and the squatters   everyone herders on the little Colorado river  lost over 4 000 head with irate cattlemen ran   their sheep into the river north of flagstaff  10 bands of sheep near the San Francisco Peaks   were mangled when a herd of horses  were stampeded through their midst   a band of sheep is 2500 sheep so times thin  that's 25 000 sheep that were destroyed   William C Barnes a cattleman told a story of  a herder who had his sheep run off in 1883   along with everything else  the herder was to be hung   the sentence of hanging was commuted  though to having his ears notched instead   oh good the shepherd lived and two years  later sued the cattlemen for his indignation   he received a ten thousand dollar settlement  and disappeared never to be heard from again   uh he could care less about them sheep anymore but  he just got his money and he left I suppose the   point to be made here again is that well there  was money to be made with the woolly critters   they were also a very dangerous if not expedient  way to get yourself killed as they used to say in the meantime male content continued to escalate  between the Tewksburys and the Grahams and of   course James Stinson that pot we talked about  earlier was just about to come to a full boil   the inevitable was able to be set into  play here's what happened James Stinson   ordered his foreman John Gilliland to round  up whatever strays he had not gathered as yet   and in the process Gilliland encountered  ed Tewksbury and some of his cowboys   bad words were thrown back and forth I'm sure  they probably accused each other of rustling   and this of course caused the Tewksburys  to retaliate with the law of the range   gunfire the foreman Guilliland was sent  on his way with a bullet to his leg   obviously the time for talking  had come to an abrupt halt   when our timing not withstanding now  we see the entrance of the affluent   very powerful Dagg brothers originally from  Missouri there is much to be said about their   influence probably the largest influence  in the causes of the feud to start with   they were five brothers all of whom had money  and they were looking for control and ways to   make even more money they controlled more  than fifty thousand head of sheep and they   approached the Tewksbury's with a proposition  that would not set well with anybody else   the dag suggested that a large flock of sheep  would offer not only the opportunity for the   Tewksbury's to make a profit with their land  but also allow a further retaliation against   the Grahams by running the cattle business  out of the area below the Mogollon Rim well now Cattlemen and Sheepman don't mix i  really probably don't need to tell you that but   there are some important elements that need to  be considered when talking about the seemingly   inherent hate between cattlemen and the sheep men  aside from the fact that sheep could nibble the   grazing land down to dirt and the cattle wouldn't  have anything left to graze on there were a few   other elements that existed it really didn't  have anything to do with the cattle or the sheep   cowboys had been the Cock of the roost for so many  years they had their own distinctive dress spurs   high boots chaps white sombreros thy hats they  ruled the world from the back of a horse and   lorded it over everybody else as well as the nasty  cow critters than any other beast including man   cowboys and cattle supplied the demand of beef  for the ever-growing population of the country   from coast to coast in their own eyes cowboys were  a real big deal on the other hand Sheepmen were   notoriously from foreign countries they spoke and  dressed funny as far as the cowboy was concerned   and of all the sanctimonious things to do one  shepherd could handle vast numbers of sheep and he   did it on foot with only the aid of a couple smart  dogs that would help him rouse them sheep around   and what was worse while the sheep could be  sold for food they could also be sold for their   very valuable commodity wool in fact at times  wool was in greater demand than the mutton was   in essence sheep returned a hundred percent of  every dollar that was invested this kind of ran   to cattle people a little bit on the crazy side  the investment and return were the reasons that   made sheep appear so appealing to the Tewksburys  the dagg brothers agreed to send a band of sheep   into pleasant valley under the protection of the  Tewksbury guns the three brothers and Bill Jacobs   would sit receive a share of the profits just for  the use of their guns it was a dangerous scheme at   best one that might wipe them out if it failed  it would wipe out everybody if it failed but   if anyone in Arizona could carry it off those  three half breed brothers could turn the trick   there still wasn't any love lost grams didn't like  these boys the bargain was struck the Tewksburys   or the daggs hired a Navajo shepherd we're not  real sure which of them hired the shepherd but   unfortunately not so good for the shepherd he was  murdered in the following February in 1887. while   the grahams were never proven to have committed  the crime it was rumored that Andy Cooper name   you want to remember in league with the Grahams  was responsible for the deed others say it was the   cowboys from the Hash the Hash Knife Outfit who  knows we don't know and probably never will know   we are probably never going to know for certain  who was actually responsible what we do know   is that whatever the case may have been all  manner measure and forms of hell were about   to break loose now in 1887 martin j or old  man Blevins owned a place on canyon creek   it was a homeward for wayward rustlers horse  thieves and other assorted hardcore elements   the leader of this bad bunch was Blevin's son Andy  Cooper so now you all don't get confused over this   Andy Blevins changed his name to cooper to avoid  being caught for his many infractions of the law   of course everybody on the planet knew that Andy  Cooper was Andy Blevins so it really didn't matter   but he went by Andy Cooper and he died by  that name we'll get to that in a few minutes   at any rate a prime example that hell that  took place occurred during the summer when old   mart Blevins became the second casualty of the  pleasant valley war here's how that story went   Mark Blevins was out searching for horses when  he just disappeared on the third day of august   in 1887 a group of cowboys including hands from  the Hash Knife and Graham Ranches Bob Gillespie,   Bob Carrington and Tom Tucker along with Hamp  Blevins the youngest brother and John Payne   joined up to search for the old man they searched  for three weeks and found no signs of him anywhere   but now the group of frustrated  searchers were getting to the point   where they couldn't find him they were frustrated  over that and so what they did was they started   building an even deeper contempt for the  Tewksbury's whether true or not they had talked   themselves into believing the Tewksburys had to  be responsible for the old man's disappearance   unfortunately the search party had become  little more than just a gang of guys on the prod   they were looking for somebody to blame  and the Tewksburys filled the Bill   their search eventually took them over to Wilson  creek that Wilson Creek has had other different   names like Walnut Creek some people get the maps  wrong but we're going to use Wilson creek for now   that was on the afternoon of  Wednesday the 10th of august   this is when they came upon the Middleton cabin  that cabin turned out to be the nastiest hive of   angry bees any of them could have ever imagined  inside the cabin were Ed Tewksbury Jim Tewksbury   and James Roberts as we know there was no love  lost by the Graham brothers for the men inside   Jim Rogers who had settled below the rim some  years before had lost numerous horses to thieves   and of course Andy Cooper and his bunch were  blamed for those thefts nevertheless here we go   oaths were issued and sworn to by both sides  and then there was an explosion of gunfire the first volley of fire came from the cabin and  with it Hamp Blevins was mortally wounded dead   before he hit the ground a rifle ball issued  by Robert clipped off one of John Payne's ears   and another ball dropped his horse out from  under him a second later Jim Tewksbury shot   and killed the poor guy standing there all he's  doing was standing there trying to figure out   what was going on and Jim Tewksbury shot him in  the less time that it takes to tell this story   Bob Carrington was hit twice once in the right  arm and again in the left leg tom tucker was hit   by a bullet that entered his left side and exited  out under his right armpit Bob Gillespie trying to   get his mount turned around and returned fire to  the cabin had received a pistol shot to his pride   and was knocked unceremoniously off his saddle  now I'm thinking I'd have probably gonna have the   saddle too with no further ado the wounded riders  decided that discretion was truly the better part   of valor they hightailed it through a hail of lead  as quickly as they could get their animals to move   this go-round clearly went to the Tewksbury  brothers and Jim Roberts however the ball was   truly open at this point this was war the brothers  were forced into hiding from camp to camp they   knew for certain that Andy Cooper having just  lost two of his kin would be hot on their trail   the pleasant valet war has always been  characterized as the Graham Tewksbury feud   but so far the Graham brothers had not actually  played any active roles in the happenstance at all other than their loyalties they fell toward the  cattlemen that was about all that they had done   so far the ruckus that had been raised up so  far was between the Hash knife Blevins cattlemen   and the Tewksbury sheepmen however  that was all soon to take a turn   again for even worse than what it was before   now we have the law dogs getting involved it's  getting a little bit too hot and heavy so the law   dogs are getting involved Sheriff Bill Malvinon  and his posse from Prescott had 10 warrants   in their possession and they had to pick up  anybody involved at the Middleton cabin shootout   in the meantime bill graham was headed for Payson  there he met up with deputy Sheriff Jim Hock   or hoke as Hock tells it he says I went up on  the hill above the trail to the Graham Ranch and   picketed my horse and slept out until daylight  then I got down on the trail behind a tree   I knew John Graham would come along and I  had a warrant for him and was going to get   him instead of John graham though Bill Graham  came along and I didn't have a warrant for him   because he was one of the younger ones  I stepped out and bill drew a gun on me   I tried to stop him when I first seen him it was  him I tried to speak to him but it was no use as   he pulled his gun I turned loose and shot him this  horse whirled and i shot two or three more times   I knew it was the only thing to do because he was  pumping at me as fast as he could pull the trigger   well now Billy Graham like Carrington managed  to stay on his horse and rode back to the Graham   ranch there shortly after his arrival he died  sure enough did if it had not been officially   declared before the killing of Bill Graham marked  the actual beginning of the Pleasant valley war   when our summer was at an end when on  September 2 1887 Tom and John Graham   along with Andy Cooper and a band of riders  angrily headed for the Tewksbury headquarters   regrettably the mob encountered Bill  Jacobs and John Tewksbury just about   a mile from their house the ground buns  ambushed the two men didn't have a chance   and neither one survived John  became the first Tewksbury casualty   there's different versions of the story that  say they were within a mile some say they were   even closer to the house but we'll get to that  in just a minute too but just so you don't come   after me there's a whole bunch of different  stories that have been told about this war   well now meanwhile ed and Jim Tewksbury  their mother and sickly father were inside   the main house some people believe  that Jim Roberts was also there   but that's never been confirmed so we  don't know if he was or wasn't for sure now according to the one story the bodies were  close to the house others say well we'll get to   that as there's so many events of this nature  even eyewitness accounts can vary greatly one   story relates that Bill Jacobs and John Tewksbury  were close enough to the house that Mrs Tewksberry   could see hogs rooting at their fallen bodies she  was outraged she ran outside to bury them in or at   least get them away from the hogs this account  says that she was shot dead for her efforts   other versions including the accounts of  William Croft Barnes another rancher in the area and most of the newspaper chronicles that were  more reliable stated that the Tewksbury slipped   away they got out the back of the house to safety  finding no one in the house there was nobody left   the Graham and Cooper faction also  pulled out they just went home justice of the peace John Meadows here he was a  character but he was from Payson and he rode to   the Tewksbury ranch to hold an inquest there  really wasn't much to do other than bury the   bodies there was nobody to talk to so you really  didn't have much of an inquest meadow seems to   have been pretty complacent about the whole ordeal  as well he hypothecated that given enough time   the two factions would simply wipe each other out  and the killing would have to stop due to lack of   participants well personally the attitude  that the situation would resolve itself   by running out of combatants was  pretty cavalier as far as I'm concerned   there were just too many people who were  getting involved whether they wanted to or not   there's a lot of names that we don't even  hear about from the Graham, Tewksbury war   so there were lots of people being involved  lots of cattlemen lots of sheep people   fortunately this Graham Tewksbury conflict had  not gone unnoticed by higher authorities enough   was enough and it was past time to  call a hold to the whole bloody affair   a meeting was held on September 7th 1887. in  attendance was Governor Mayor Zulick sheriff   William Malvinon and District Attorney John C  Herndon the consensus was that it didn't matter   who had started what or when everyone involved  in the conflict in any way was to be arrested and   brought before the court no matter what or how the  shooting had to stop they just had to make it quit   warrants were issued as early as march 26 of  1886 to arrest Andy cooper for pete's sake   that was a full year before then he he was issued  warrants for stealing more than 30 horses from   the Navajo Indians unfortunately or fortunately  however you want to look at it Cooper was never   arrested simply because no Sheriff Territorial  deputy U.S Marshal or anyone else with a badge   considered stealing from indians a crime  that warranted arresting a white man now however pressure was brought to bear that  pressure was laid upon the shoulders of one   Commodore Perry Owens the Apache County  Sheriff he was there from 1887 to 1888.   it came in the form of an ultimatum it  was get Andy Cooper or get another job   he really had no choice in the matter and he  took him up on it and he did what he was told   well now Andy Cooper arrived in Hollbrook on  September 4th immediately following the ambush at   the Tewksbury ranch he boasted that he was the one  that had put Jacobs and Tewksbury in the ground   and in doing so to his way of thinking he had  avenged the death of his father and brother   unfortunately for Cooper sheriff Perry Owens  arrived in Hollbrook that very same day the   western gun fight that occurred when Owens  moved in for the arrest during that afternoon   has gone down in history as nothing short of  amazing as near as we can ascertain here are   the actual movements of both Cooper and sheriff  Owens on that fateful day in September of 1887. sheriff Owens rode to brown and kinder's livery  stable in Holbrook to put up his horse he then   crossed the street to Watron's drug store  where he engaged some of john Blevin's men   in a conversation in the meantime Andy cooper  spotted Owens from inside his mother's house   he told John Blevins his brother to go get his  horse and put him out front and so he didn't   want the sheriff to see him but he wanted that  horse handy in case he got a chance to get away   shortly thereafter Owens returned to the  delivery stable to get his Winchester rife   on hand he left the livery stable and walked down  main street toward the Blevins house sheriff Owens   approached the front door and called for Cooper  to surrender but with a pistol in his hand behind   his back cooper answered the door and told Owens  that he would be just a moment while he got ready   well there's no way Owens was buying into that  bit of fluff the wary law man fired through the   door and hit Andy Cooper in the stomach Owens  then jumped down off the porch at the same   instant that John Blevins fired a shot that bullet  just barely missed the sheriff at this point I   can recall no greater irony than the fact that  the bullet fired by John struck the very horse   he had brought around earlier for his brother  this killing Andy only means of escape   even if Cooper had a chance to get away that  four-legged chance had just dropped over dead   now it was Owen's turn to return fire again  through the front door this time john was the   recipient of the lead pellet it struck him in the  shoulder then Andy Cooper made the last mistake he   would make in his young outlaw life Owens spotted  him through a window and with deadly accuracy   shot the fugitive in the hips with all hell  breaking loose Sam Houston Blevins who was only 15   and he was the youngest brother picked up the  pistol that that old Andy Cooper had dropped   and headed out onto the porch after Owens he too  came up short with a ball from Owen's deadly rifle   he soon died in his mother's arms in desperation  another of the occupants Mose Roberts   crawled out through a window on the west side of  the house but Owens heard him Owen shouldered to   Winchester one more time and shot the men in  the chest though badly wounded Roberts managed   to muster enough strength to get back into the  house where he finally collapsed and was dying   in the kitchen the situation inside the house as  you might imagine was just sheer pandemonium Owens   on the other hand kept his wits about him the  entire time he was cold and calculating under fire   there would be no escape that day in about  a minute Sheriff Perry Owens walked away   from the shootout without a scratch in his wake  there were three men dead or dying and another   wounded with smoke still hanging in the air the  Sheriff calmly returned to the delivery stable   he shoved the Winchester back in its scabbard  he mounted and he rode at a Holbrook however he   did return for a court inquest concerning  the September 4th incident two days later   the trial of John Blevins the only survivor was  delayed for a year but eventually he was sentenced   to five years in jail providence was on Blevin's  side because he was pardoned shortly thereafter   without ever serving one day behind bars it was  entirely different for Andy Cooper, Sam Blevins   and Mose Roberts they had already shelled out  the highest dole to mark their debt to society   paid in full you could hear sighs of  relief as many believe that this gun fight   should have put a halt to the deadly feud  unfortunately that was not to be the case on September 16th only 12 days later yet  another confrontation erupted this time   it was the Tewksbury brothers and Jim Roberts  dueling with Harry Middleton and Joe Underwood   Harry Middleton was shot through and through  but still managed to return to the Graham   ranch where he soon died Underwood made it  over to San Carlos where he he did recover   nope still wasn't over also because of the  meeting with the Governor, Sheriff mallvernon   and a posse of 25 rode into pleasant valley four  days after that and convened at the Perkins store to describe the situation location a little bit  this store load was located just a short distance   from the Grahamm house oddly enough  it was surrounded by a stone wall   the next day John Graham and Charlie Blevins  rode to the store and were met by a congress   comprised of the Sheriff and his deputies the  posse had been put down behind the wall and they   stayed hidden behind the wall while sheriff Mallvernon gave the order for the two men to surrender   in another incredibly stupid move the  two outlaws chose to resist the order   Sheriff Malvern shotgun dropped Graham's horse  right out from under him that shotgun blast also   cued a volley of gunfire from the barricaded  posse both outlaws were killed instantly stupidity went out the Sheriff then proceeded to  the Graham house where he arrested Miguel Apocal   and nearby the Graham house stood a cabin where  another confederate Al Rose was also arrested as   for the Tewskburys, Jim Roberts and four of their  cohorts. Tom Graham was not captured at that time   but turned himself in a little later in  October the prisoners were all taken to   Prescott where to everyone's surprise they  were all either discharged or released on bail   a Grand Jury hearing was set for the  end of the year in December of 1887. well that December rolled around when  an even bigger surprise took place   all of the principles actually showed up oh they were armed to the teeth however um but  they did show up happily nothing came of it and   the proceedings continued Edwin Jim Tewksbury  and Jim Roberts and the four other defendants   were all indicted for the murder of Hemp Blevins  the grams were scheduled to appear in court at the   Apache County seat in St John's the trial dates  were set for six months later in June of 1888. in   their case however not so surprisingly out of fear  none of the witnesses showed up to give testimony   the court was forced to release all  the defendants due to lack of evidence   that was a sorry situation according to  William C Barnes a man had become a very   prominent cattleman up in that area in pleasant  valley Jim Tewksburry became increasingly ill with   consumption after the trials he died  in Prescott before the year was out   that left only two survivors from the original two  feuding families Edwin Tewksbury and Tom Graham the following year tom graham  and his new wife moved to Tempe   Ed Tewksberry stayed in pleasant valley but  he never ran cheap again to everyone's relief   it seemed as though the terrible fighting had  finally come to an end however there was one   last scene to be played out but it would not  occur until sever several years later in 1892 Tom Graham and his family were still  living in Tempe however on August 2nd 1892   he was shot in the back while making some  deliveries and he was shot from ambush before he   died two hours later he testified that it was  Edwin Tewksbury who had pulled the trigger   witnesses who heard the fatal shot reported  seeing a writer who looked like Edwin Tewksberry   all the evidence was substantial enough to support  his arrest three days later the last Tewksberry   was taken to trial in Tucson Arizona where he was  found guilty and sent to jail but then in February   1895 Tewksbury was released they got him a new  trial which was scheduled for march of 1896. at   that trial after so many years Edwin Tewksbury was  acquitted and all charges were dropped he moved to   Globe Arizona where he served as a law enforcement  officer he remarried and had four children in the   end he died in his home in 1904 from a stroke  resulting from pneumonia he was 45 years old there is no doubt that the story of the  Pleasant Valley war sometimes called   the Tonto basin feud or Tonto basin war or even  the Tewksbury Graham feud this was a range war   fought in pleasant valley Arizona in the years  1882 to 1892 and was the longest and bloodiest   range war in american history it is truly  an incredible tale that area right now has a   has another name to it and that's Young call it  Young dash Pleasant Valley I have to say that   I've only touched some of the high points with  this go around simply because of the complexity   of everything that was taking place at the time  do know that there is much more to be discovered   about this conflict should you spend any time  at all up on the web researching the topic you   will find information about the people mentioned  and the fascinating roles they continued to play   in Arizona history long after the gun fight quit  and the smoke drifted off these people were still   making history you will also discover numerous  other people who became involved whether by choice   or otherwise some were local vigilantes or  hired hands and cowboys from both sides in total   over 35 to 50 individuals were killed today many  of their graves can still be seen up at the Young   cemetery as for the Perkins store well it  still stands as a museum it's still there the Pleasant Valley area was renamed Young  in 1890. I should have mentioned that earlier   in closing this segment while we can definitively  say that Edwin Tewksbury was the last survivor   of the Pleasant Valley war and we also know  that he died in globe Arizona in April of 1904   there is much more about this war that we cannot  say it can also be said that the final analysis   perhaps Justice of the Peace Meadows have  been right all along with no more Grahams and   no more Tewksburys left the war  finally had to come to an end and it did   thank you for watching this episode of  Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains

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Length: 43min 2sec (2582 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 17 2021