As many locals know, the services of Globe’s Red Light District, otherwise known as the Tenderloin, were once in high demand. By December 1909, however, theses houses of “ill repute” had become a matter of the court. District Attorney G.W. Shute had begun a lengthy campaign against the Tenderloin, …
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Salting the earth: The con is on
As it turns out, P.T. Barnum never said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” But that doesn’t make it any less true. Depending on the degree to which someone wants to believe, even a thoughtful person can be convinced of just about anything. Anxious people with the desire for quick …
Read More »The Bandit Queen
You would think that news of an Arizona stage coach robbery in the waning months of the 19th century would quickly fall out of the frontier news cycle. Yet this particular heist propelled the story of a young woman in her twenties onto the pages of newspapers and magazines across …
Read More »A most heinous crime in Gila County – 1910
In September 1910, the Arizona Daily Star reported a murder committed by two ex-cavalry men at an abandoned stage station in Globe. They called it one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Gila County. The two managed to escape the scene, but they could not hide for …
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