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    Cochise County in southeastern Arizona was the scene of a number of violent conflicts in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West, including...
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    Cochise County (/koʊˈtʃiːs/ koh-CHEESS) is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache...
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    The Cochise County Cowboys is the modern name for a loosely associated group of outlaws living in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona in the late 19th century...
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    leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising that began in 1861 and persisted until a peace treaty was negotiated in 1872. Cochise County is named after...
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    American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He took part in the Mason...
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    timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental...
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  • of Old West gunfighters August 12, 1882, reported in The New Southwest and Grant County Herald Wild West Outlaws and Lawmen Complete List of Old West Lawmen...
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    Ike Clanton (category Cochise County conflict)
    might beat him in the next Cochise County election. He thought catching the March 15, 1881, robbers of the Benson Stage (in which the driver and a passenger...
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    Frank Stilwell (category Cochise County conflict)
    two men in Cochise County during 1877–82. Both killings were considered to have been self-defense. For four months he was a deputy sheriff in Tombstone...
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    Gleeson gunfight (category Events in Cochise County, Arizona)
    occurred during the transition period between the "Old" and the "New." On March 5, 1917, the sheriff of Cochise County, Harry C. Wheeler, and his deputy, Lafe...
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    Texas Canyon (category Landforms of Cochise County, Arizona)
    valley in Cochise County, Arizona, about 20 miles east of Benson on Interstate 10. Lying between the Little Dragoon Mountains to the north and the Dragoon...
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    Burt Alvord (category Cochise County conflict)
    later outlaw of the Old West. Alvord began his career in law enforcement in 1886 as a deputy under Sheriff John Slaughter in Cochise County, Arizona, but...
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    The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated...
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  • Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp and Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Johnny Behan. When an outlaw committed a crime, the local sheriff or marshal would usually...
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    Shootout at Wilson Ranch (category Events in Cochise County, Arizona)
    pioneers, the Kokernots, but worked as cowboys in Cochise County, Arizona. In 1898, the Halderman brothers began feuding with the eighteen-year-old Teddy...
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    Bisbee is a city in and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson and 11 miles...
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    Pearce, Arizona (category Former populated places in Cochise County, Arizona)
    adjacent unincorporated communities in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The two communities are often referred to...
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    arrived in Tombstone on December 25, 1880 and remained residents of Cochise County until their deaths. Edith was born in a log cabin in Leadville at the home...
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    Chiricahua National Monument (category National Register of Historic Places in Cochise County, Arizona)
    portal List of national monuments of the United States National Register of Historic Places listings in Cochise County, Arizona "National Park Service Acreage...
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    Gleeson Jail (category Buildings and structures in Cochise County, Arizona)
    with his wife in Cochise County and became constable of Gleeson in 1904. A few years after his appointment, Cates convinced the county to build a new...
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    Fred White. In contrast, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan was generally sympathetic to the interests of the rural ranchers and members of the loosely organized...
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    Warren Earp (category Cochise County conflict)
    Henry Hooker in Cochise County, Arizona. Modern depictions of Warren Earp portray him as being slightly naive and youthful. After the shootout in Tombstone...
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    Fairbank train robbery (category Events in Cochise County, Arizona)
    library and is open to the general public. Arizona portal List of Old West gunfights Augustine Chacon Cochise County in the Old West Patterson, Richard M...
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    Bird Cage Theatre (category Museums in Cochise County, Arizona)
    Commerce. "Bird Cage Theatre". Agnew, Jeremy (2011). Entertainment in the Old West: Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other...
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    Billy Clanton (category People from Cochise County, Arizona)
    outlaw Cowboy in Cochise County, Arizona Territory. He, along with his father Newman Clanton and brother Ike Clanton, worked a ranch near the boomtown of...
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    percent of the local Tombstone, Arizona, taxes in the 1880s. Milt Joyce (1847–1889), owner of the Oriental Saloon and chairman of Cochise County, Arizona...
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  • Big Nose Kate (category Cochise County conflict)
    Roerig were killed.Cochise County Cowboy Bill Leonard, a former watchmaker from New York City, was one of three men implicated in the robbery, and he and...
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    Ed Drew (category People from Cochise County, Arizona)
    the Nature Conservancy. Also, members of Drew's family still live in Arizona today. Arizona portal List of Old West lawmen Cochise County in the Old West...
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    Billy Breakenridge (category People from Cochise County, Arizona)
    up in Phoenix where he became a Maricopa County deputy sheriff. After staying in Phoenix for about a year, Breakenridge went south to Cochise County and...
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    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Two of his sons were involved in multiple conflicts in Cochise County, Arizona Territory including stagecoach robbery and cattle...
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