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Territorial News www.territorialnewspapers.com Vol. 20, No. 7 Your Connection to the Old West April 3, 2013 Next Issue Wednesday April 17 Pearl Hart Arizona’s Lady Bandit Play Arizona Trivia orn in Lindsay, including prominent women’s Ontario, Canada, to a activist and poet Julia Ward See Page 2 for Details Brespectable middle- Howe. class family, Pearl Taylor Inspired by seeing strong would grow up to become one women and captivated by the This Week’s of the only female stagecoach heroes and legends of the Wild robbers in the American West, she soon mustered the Question: West. courage to leave her shiftless In her teens she was husband and boarded a train Who was the known for her attractiveness to Trinidad, Colorado. There, starting pitcher for and wit. She was also known she became a popular saloon for her willingness to date singer. However, she soon the Arizona many young men. She was sent found that she was pregnant Diamondbacks to finishing school and, in with Frederick’s child and in the franchise’s 1888, at age seventeen, was returned to her family in first game on seduced by bartender and Canada. After giving birth to March 31, 1998? small-time gambler, Frederick a son, she left him with her (9 Letters) Hart. Pearl eloped with him, mother and traveled west but marriage to Hart proved again, this time landing in to be one hardship after Phoenix, Arizona. another. In 1893, the couple To survive, Pearl cooked traveled to the Columbian in a lunchroom and took in Exposition in Chicago, laundry. In late 1895 Index Illinois, where Fred worked as Frederick showed up and a sideshow barker and Pearl begged her to return to him, Arizona Kid...................15 found a number of odd jobs. promising that he would get a Arizona Trivia................2 While she was there, she job. He found employment as Business Directory........14 became enthralled with the a bartender and hotel manager Classifieds.....................14 Wild West shows and was and Pearl agreed to give him Jim Harvey......................2 especially enamored by Annie a chance. Oakley, who she saw While their life seemed Recipe...........................4 performing. She also attended to be happier during this time, the World’s Fair Women’s the pair also began to live a Pavilion where she listened to The History of Arizona a number of speeches, (See Pearl Hart on Page 4) Emmett Dalton: Conditions in 1867 & 1868 Gunfighters Played Fair In the spring of 1867, the In the early part of the 1900s writer/historian Thomas Edwin War Department sent General Farish was commissioned by the Arizona Territorial Legislature to write nce pardoned from James E. Rusling to inspect the a history of Arizona. This was a mammoth undertaking in its day and prison in 1907, military posts in Arizona. In the took several years to complete. The original volumes of the book were OEmmett Dalton, of published in 1915-1918. the infamous Dalton Gang, last issue, Thomas Farish The Territorial News is publishing excerpts of these volumes over related Rusling’s descriptions of “went straight.” He turned to the next several issues. This is an extensive work and, unfortunately, we honest labor to make a the conditions in the territory. In are not able to publish the complete text on these pages. Every attempt this issue, Farish continues is made to do justice to the author and preserve the integrity of his work living, including working as relating the observations of in the selections we publish. a building contractor and a Rusling’s party. Maricopas and the rest by the regular farming and grazing. real estate agent. Later he Pimas. They have constructed great moved to Hollywood, where By Thomas Edwin Farish “Both tribes are a acequias up and down the he parlayed his colorful healthy, athletic, vigorous- Gila, and by means of these background as an authentic t Maricopa Wells looking people, and they were take out and carry water for Wild West outlaw into a brief they entered the decidedly the most well-to-do irrigating purposes, over career as a technical advisor A Pima and Maricopa aborigines we had yet seen. thousands of acres of as fine for movie westerns. He even attempted to rob two banks reservation. The reservation Unlike most Indians land as anybody owns. Their appeared in a couple of silent at once in Coffeyville, but was described as some twenty- elsewhere, these two tribes fields are well fenced with films himself. In 1909, he failed spectacularly. Four five miles long by four or five are steadily on the increase; willows, they had been returned to Coffeyville, gangmembers were killed, miles wide, embracing both and this is not to be wondered scratched a little with rude Kansas, to act as the advisor but Emmett survived, sides of the Gila, and in it were at, when one sees how they plows, and already (March on a short film about the despite receiving twenty- twelve different villages, two have abandoned a vagabond Dalton Gang’s infamous of them occupied by condition, and settled down to (See Conditions on Page 8) raid. In 1892, the gang had (See Gunfighters on Page 11) Page 2 Territorial News April 3, 2013 When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; Arizona - Web of Time when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. northeast of Kingman. So long as mists envelope you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and Jim Harvey The first public school dispels the mists— as it surely will. The Arizona Trail teacher at Yuma when it still Then act with courage. was called Arizona City, was Clara Skinner. She was hired Ponca Chief White Eagle Condors disappeared were at war with the United in 1872, her classroom was in from Arizona’s skies more than States. During the next 18 a jail, and some of her 80 years ago. Now they’re back, months, one fourth of the students were married women. brought from California to the tribe’s warriors were killed Captain’s Bar Presents Grand Canyon where visitors in battle. An epidemic of Before the railroads can sometimes see them either whooping cough or came to Arizona in the early ARIZONA TRIVIA overhead. The great birds have dysentery - it’s not clear 1880s, freight was hauled in wingspans of more than nine which - killed many Murphy wagons pulled by This Week’s Question: Who was the starting pitcher for feet and can soar at speeds of children. The Hualapai horses and mules. The wagons the Arizona Diamondbacks in the franchise’s first game 50 miles an hour. gave up the fight and on March 31, 1998? (9 Letters) could carry 12,500 pounds surrendered in early 1869. each, were 16 feet long and Last Issue’s Question: Who gave the presidential nomination In June of 1867, Their descendants live four feet wide. The rear speech for Arizona’s Barry Goldwater in 1964? Arizona’s Hualapai Indians today at Peach Springs, wheels were seven feet in Answer: Ronald Reagan diameter. Congratulations! You got the right answer! In 1909, a place called You are entered into our drawing Bouse west of Phoenix was at Keith Adams, Cindy Anderson, Cleo Bosshardt, Sid Clarke, Larry the center of Arizona’s newest Damer, Vicki Damer, Doyle Ekey, Jack Gajewski, Marsha Gartley, copper mining bonanza. 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