Territorial News www.territorialnews.com www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews Vol. 22, No. 5 Your Connection to the Old West February 26, 2014 Next Issue Wednesday Ben March 12 Play Thompson Arizona Trivia See Page 2 for Details One of the West’s Deadliest Gunfighters This Week’s here were few gunfight- as a profes- emy lines and prior to his return that his Question: ers in the Old West who sional gam- delivering im- brother-in-law, Jim Moore, T could match Ben Th- bler. Thomp- portant dis- was physically abusing ompson. The famous Bat son was only patches for Thompson’s sister. Shortly af- What former Arizona Masterson described Thomp- 17 when he his command- ter his return to Texas, he con- governor is entombed son as “a remarkable man in stabbed and ing officers. fronted Moore, and killed in a pyramid in many ways and it is very killed a fellow He also got him. Thompson was charged Papago Park in doubtful if in his time there gambler in into trouble with murder and spent two was another man living who New Orleans on several oc- years in the state penitentiary Phoenix? equalled him with the pistol in when the man casions, kill- in Huntsville. (10 Letters) a life and death struggle. He accused him ing a sergeant After prison, Thompson was absolutely without fear of cheating and a lieuten- took his gambling skills to and his nerves were those of and attacked ant in a brawl Abilene, Kansas. He and the finest steel.” him. That was and killing friend and fellow gambler Phil Thompson was born in only the first two Mexicans Coe then opened up the Bull’s Index Knottingley, Yorkshire, En- of many kill- and a man Head Saloon. Wild Bill gland, on November 2, 1843. ings that named John Hickok was the sheriff of Arizona Kid...................8 His parents moved the family eventually Coombs in Abilene at the time. Thomp- Arizona Trivia................2 to Austin, Texas, when he was would be attributed to Ben gambling disputes. The law son and Hickok were wary of Business Directory........22 still a young boy. Thompson Thompson. caught up with him in Austin, each other, but the two never Classifieds.....................22 found work as a printer while When the Civil War where he was charged with had an altercation. Hickok Jim Harvey......................2 still in his teens and set type started, Thompson enlisted as Coombs’ death. After waiting ended up killing Coe in a gun- for local newspapers. He dis- a private in the Confederate several months in jail, Thomp- fight, but Thompson never 125 Years Ago..............6 covered he was skilled at Army at San Antonio. It’s said son escaped and fled south of challenged Hickok over the Recipe..........................22 cards, however, and was soon he performed several deeds of the border where he accepted affair, feeling that Hickok was traveling and earning a living great daring, crossing into en- a lieutenant’s position in Mexi- justified in the killing. can Emperor Maximilian’s In September 1871, Th- army. He only stayed for a ompson moved back to Austin, short while, then returned to The Captivity of the Texas. He had received word (See Gunfighter on Page 8) Oatman Girls Tecumseh CHAPTER 2: On August 9, 1850, the Oatman family left Independence, Tried to Unify Indians Missouri, headed for a new life in California. They would never reach Mr. and Mrs Oatman their destination. On the trail in Arizona, an Indian party attacked the s much as any In- in Perplexity family. The only survivors were sisters Olive and Mary Ann and their dian leader, By R. B. Stratton brother Lorenzo. Lorenzo was left for dead and the sisters were taken A Tecumseh (1768- captive. In 1857, R. B. Stratton wrote a book titled The Captivity of the 1813) saw the necessity of Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians. he reader should here The Territorial News is serializing the book in its entirety. Look for uniting his people to resist be apprised that, as the a new installment in every issue of the Territorial News. white encroachment on the T entire narrative that land. And he came closer follows has an almost exclu- “We were left to the se- tory,’ made by a traveling cor- than any other to persuad- sive reference to those mem- vere alternative of starting respondent who was at Pimole ing the perpetually warring bers of the family who alone with a meagre supply, which village at the time of writing, tribes to abandon their nar- survive to tell this sad tale of any considerable delay would concerning the needlessness row interests and tradi- their sufferings and priva- exhaust ere we could reach a and absence of all plausible tional hostilities in order to tions, it has been thought the place of re-supply, or to stay reason for the course resolved achieve his dream of pan- most appropriate that it be among the apparently friendly upon by my father, is incor- Indian unity. he was six years old, the given in the first person. Indians, who also were but rect. There were reasons for The son of a Shawnee murder of his father by Lorenzo D. Oatman has poorly supplied at best to fur- the tarrying of the Wilders war chief named white hunters trespassing given to the author the follow- nish us; and of whose real in- and Kellys that had no perti- Puckeshinwa and a woman on the tribal lands left him ing facts, reaching on to the mo- tentions it was impossible to nence when considered in con- named Methoataske, prob- with a deep, lifelong detes- ment when he was made sense- form any reliable conclusion. nection with the peculiarities ably a Creek, Tecumseh tation of white men. less, and in that condition left The statement that I have since was born near the present by the Apache murderers. seen in the ‘Ladies’ Reposi- (See Captivity on Page 6) site of Dayton, Ohio. When (See Leader on Page 4) Page 2 Territorial News February 26, 2014 Give Thanks Arizona - Web of Time When you arise in the morning, give thanks for wipe beer foam from their the morning light, for your life and strength. mustaches. Much in demand Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. Jim Harvey for saloon décor were copies If you see no reason for giving thanks, The Arizona Trail of a painting depicting the fault lies in yourself. General George Custer’s last stand at the Little Big Horn. -Tecumseh In 1849, a blind Navajo supplying ties for the railroad And foul language was not prophet predicted disaster for under construction across allowed. his people because the federal northern Arizona in 1881. He Captain’s Bar Presents government had claimed their was the son of the Mormon Employees at the land. His prophecy came true Church’s Brigham Young. His government Indian school 15 years later when the largest 60-man crew of tree cutters southeast of Tuba City on the ARIZONA TRIVIA combined U.S. Army-civilian lived close to the San Navajo Reservation saw a This Week’s Question: What former Arizona governor is force ever sent against an Francisco Mountain where camel in 1902. They followed entombed in a pyramid in Papago Park in Phoenix? Indian tribe, before or since, Flagstaff is today. Their camp its tracks until they lost the (10 Letters) began taking Navajo sheep as was protected by a wall of ties trail. The camel probably was the spoils of war. Orchards, because they feared an Indian a descendant of those used to Last Issue’s Question: Who was the first corn and wheat fields were attack that never came. replace pack horses as far manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks? laid waste and captives were back as 1857. After the Civil Answer: Buck Showalter sold as slaves. Well-equipped saloons at War, most of the camels were 1890 Williams provided turned loosed to fend for Congratulations! You got the right answer! John Young was towels so customers could themselves. 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