BIBLIOGRAPHY
BUCKEY O’NEILL AND THE TRAIN ROBBERS
Barnes, Will C. Apaches and Longhorns . Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1941.
Herner, Charles. The Arizona Rough Riders . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970.
Hietter, Paul. “No Better than Murderers: The 1889 Canyon Diablo Train Robbery and the Death Penalty in Arizona Territory.” Journal of Arizona History (Autumn 2006).
Tinsley, Jim Bob. The Hash Knife Brand . Tampa: University of Florida Press, 1993.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizona Adventure . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West, 1982.
Walker, Dale. Death Was the Black Horse . Austin, TX: Madrona Press, 1975.
JIM ROBERTS: THE PLEASANT VALLEY WAR’S TOP GUN
Dedera, Don. A Little War of Our Own . Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1988.
Forrest, Earle R. Arizona’s Dark and Bloody Ground . Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1959.
Pyle, Jinx. Pleasant Valley War . Payson, AZ: Git A Rope Publishing, 2009.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizona Adventure . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West, 1982.
———. In Old Arizona . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West, 1985.
Wampler, Vance. Arizona: Years of Courage . Phoenix, AZ: Quail Run, 1984.
Young, Herbert. They Came to Jerome . Jerome, AZ: Jerome Historical Society, 1972.
Interviews
Allen, Fern. Historian for Roberts-Kirkland family.
Brunson, George Andy. Young, AZ. 1996
Chapman, Frank. Young, AZ, 1996.
Hanchett, Lee. 1994.
Haught, Tobe. Young, AZ, 1996.
Roberts, Bill. 1970–72. (Bill was a son of Jim Roberts.)
THE VANISHING TRAIN ROBBERS
Myrick, David. Railroads of Arizona . Vol. 1. Berkeley, CA: Howell North Books, 1975.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizoniana: Stories from Old Arizona . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West Publishers, 1988.
COMMODORE PERRY OWENS: BRINGING LAW AND ORDER TO APACHE COUNTY
Ackerman, Rita. OK Corral Postscript: The Death of Ike Clanton . Honolulu, HI: Talei Publishers, 2006.
Ball, Larry. “Commodore Perry Owens: The Man Behind the Legend.” Journal of Arizona History (Spring 1992).
Barnes, Will C. Apaches and Longhorns . Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1941.
Dedera, Don. A Little War of Our Own . Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1988.
Forrest, Earle R. Arizona’s Dark and Bloody Ground . Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 1936.
Hanchett, Leland J. The Crooked Trail to Holbrook . Phoenix, AZ: Arrowhead Press, 1993.
Jeffers, Jo Johnson (Baeza). “Commodore Perry Owens.” Arizona Highways (October 1960).
Peace-Pyle, Jayne. Women of the Pleasant Valley War . Payson, AZ: Git A Rope Publishing, 2010.
Pyle, Jinx. The Pleasant Valley War . Payson, AZ: Git A Rope Publishing, 2009.
Tinsley, Jim Bob. The Hash Knife Brand . Tampa: University of Florida Press, 1993. =
Trimble, Marshall. Arizona Adventure . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West, 1982.
Special thanks to Rim Country historians Jo Baeza, Jayne Peace Pyle and Jinx Pyle of Payson for sharing their research and information on the Pleasant Valley War.
Thanks also to Frank Chapman, who lives on the old Tewksbury ranch, and former Gila County deputy sheriff George “Andy” Brunson of Globe for spending many hours showing me the “lay of the land” in Pleasant Valley.
CLIMAX JIM: ARIZONA’S LADY GODIVA
Barney, James. “Climax Jim, My Favorite Outlaw.” Arizona Highways Magazine (April 1995).
Miller, Joseph. The Arizona Story . New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1952.
Patton, James. History of Clifton . Clifton, AZ: Greenlee County Chamber of Commerce, 1977.
For Further Reading
Tanner, Karen Holliday, and John D. Tanner. Climax Jim: The Tumultuous Tale of Arizona’s Rustling Cowboy . Tucson, AZ: Arizona Lithographers, 2005.
TEXAS JOHN SLAUGHTER
During the 1950s, in the early days of color television, Walt Disney Productions made a film about John Slaughter, starring Tom Tryon as Texas John Slaughter.
Arizona Highways (October 1986, February 2000 and January 2006).
Erwin, Allen A. The Southwest of John Horton Slaughter . Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1965.
Traywick, Ben. That Wicked Little Gringo: The Story of Tombstone’s John Slaughter. Tombstone, AZ: Red Maries Books, 2001.
Wagoner, J.J. Early Arizona . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975.
GEORGE RUFFNER: SHERIFF OF OLD YAVAPAI
Ruffner, Lester “Budge.” Interview, Prescott, AZ, October 18, 1994.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizona: A Cavalcade of History . Tucson, AZ: Treasure Chest Publications, 1989.
Way, Thomas E. The Parker Story . Prescott, AZ: Prescott Graphics, 1981.
BURT MOSSMAN: CAPTAIN OF THE ARIZONA RANGERS
Miller, Joseph, ed. The Arizona Rangers . New York: Hastings House, 1972.
O’Neal, Bill. The Arizona Rangers . Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1987.
Raine, William MacLeod, and Will C. Barnes. Cattle, Cowboys and Rangers . New York: Gosset and Dunlap, 1930.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizona Adventure . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West. 1982.
PEARL HART: THE GIRL BANDIT
Lauer, Charles. Tales of Arizona Territory . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West Publishers, 1990
Parker, Lowell. Arizona Towns and Tales . Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., 1975.
Smalley, George. My Adventures in Arizona . Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 1966.
HUCKSTERS , HUSTLERS , SWINDLERS AND BAMBOOZLERS
Parker, Lowell. Arizona Towns and Tales . Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., 1975.
Smalley, George. My Adventures in Arizona . Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 1966.
Trimble, Marshall. Arizoniana . Phoenix, AZ: Golden West Publishers, 1988.
BAD BOYS OF COCHISE COUNTY
Barra, Allen. Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends . New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.
Bell, Bob Boze. The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp . Phoenix, AZ: Tri Star Boze, 1994.
Breakenridge, Billy. Helldorado . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.
Breihan, Carl. Great Lawmen of the Old West . New York: Bonanza Books, 1963.
Burrows, Jack. John Ringo, the Gunfighter Who Never Was . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.
Gatto, Steve. Curly Bill . Lansing, MI: Protar House, 2003.
———. Johnny Ringo . Lansing, MI: Protar House, 2002.
Horan, James. The Gunfighters . New York: Gramercy Books, 1976.
Metz, Leon. The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws and Gunfighters . New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003.
O’Neal, Bill. Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
Roberts, Gary. Doc Holliday: The Life and the Legend . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006.
Tefertiller, Casey. Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.