Territorial News www.territorialnews.com www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews Vol. 33, No. 7 Your Connection to the Old West October 30, 2019 Next Issue Wednesday Heck Thomas November 13 Legendary Lawman Was Play One of the “Three Guardsmen” Arizona Trivia See Page 2 for Details mong the legend- young Heck, as he’d come ary lawmen of to be known, with him as a A the Old West, the courier. “Three Guardsmen,” Heck On September 1, 1862, This Week’s Thomas, Bill Tilghman and Federal General Philip Question: Chris Madsen, are among Kearny was killed in Chan- the most respected. The tilly on the last day of the three men were largely re- Second Battle of Bull Run. The famous sponsible for eliminating Heck was entrusted with jazz musician organized crime in the wild, the general’s horse and Charles Mingus was undeveloped lands of the equipment and was ordered born in what Oklahoma Territory in the by General Robert E. Lee Arizona city? late 1800s. It was said that to take them through the (7 Letters) Thomas, working for Judge lines to General Kearney’s Isaac Parker at Fort Smith widow. He recounted this and later as a deputy U.S. in a letter: “One evening marshal, brought to justice while the fight was going Index more criminals than any on or, rather, just before lawman in the territory. dark, a soldier came to the Arizona Kid..................11 Henry Andrew Thom- rear where Uncle Ed’s bag- Arizona Trivia................2 as was born in Oxford, gage and the darkies and I Business Directory........18 Georgia, near Atlanta, on were, leading a black horse Classifieds....................18 January 6, 1850. He was with saddle and bridle. He Jim Harvey.....................2 the youngest of twelve brought also a sword. Just 150 Years Ago................10 children. His father and after this, Stonewall Jackson uncle were officers in the crossed over into Maryland, Confederate Army. Henry’s capturing Frederick city; father was wounded in the that was after taking Harp- six-day battle around Rich- er’s Ferry and about 14,000 In Their Own Words mond and when the elder federal prisoners. These Thomas had healed, he re- Sagebrush, Lava Rock, turned to the army and took (See Guardsman on Page 4) and Rattlers Bannack, Montana upreme Court Justice control the nostalgic urges ohn White and sev- Plummer was an early William O. Douglas of every person. For Holm- eral partners found arrival in Bannack, and grew up in the state of es it was granite rocks and J gold along Mon- it wasn’t long before he S tana’s Grasshopper Creek organized fellow crimi- Washington. He was an avid barberry bushes. For others outdoorsman and environ- it may be lilacs, sycamores, on July 28, 1862. Soon, nals into a band of “Road mentalist, serving for a time willows, the checkerboard hundreds of Idaho pros- Agents” or “Innocents” on the Board of Director of of wheat lands, or rolling pectors hurried up the (the latter because one the Sierra Club. He wrote hills. My love is for what Mullan Road, a military of their secret greetings several popular books about many would put down as highway, to get in on the was “I am innocent”). his wilderness adventures, the dreariest aspects of the strike. From a population The Road Agents identi- including Strange Lands and dry foothills of the West-- of 400 in the fall of 1862, fied themselves by secret Friendly People, Beyond the sagebrush and lava rock. Bannack boomed to 800 handshakes and neck- High Himalayas, North from This sagebrush (Ar- the following spring, erchief knots, and they Supreme Court Justice then to 3,000 by midsum- were known to mark Malaya, and the one from William O. Douglas temisia tridenta Nutt.) is which this account is taken, found throughout the West. mer, with another 2,000 stagecoaches with code Of Men and Mountains. ing that every devil praises It is as American as the New scattered around nearby symbols indicating they the marshes where he was diggings. There is a Russian say- born. Early associations (See The Desert on Page 6) The notorious Henry (See Ghost Town on Page 8) Page 2 Territorial News October 30, 2019 A Chinook Prayer Arizona - Web of Time May all I say and all I think thwarted by a group of peo- be in harmony with thee, Jim Harvey ple who didn’t like the idea God within me, of capital punishment being The Arizona Trail God beyond me, a public spectacle and tore maker of the trees. the grandstand down. Huge parts of Earth his- on the same day on the same - Chinook prayer, Pacific Northwest Coast tory are visible in the walls gallows. The planned execu- Also at Tombstone in of Arizona’s Grand Canyon. tion created a great deal of the 1880s a man was found Rock formations show the local interest and an enter- guilty of passing counterfeit Captain’s Bar Presents fluctuations in the level of prising carpenter decided money. The justice of the oceans, the presence of an- to profit from it. He built peace decided his punish- ARIZONA TRIVIA cient river channels, islands a grandstand with a good ment would be running the This Week’s Question: The famous jazz musician and mountains, and fossils view of the gallows and an- gauntlet between two long Charles Mingus was born in what Arizona city? revealing much of the story nounced he would sell seats lines of men who kicked (7 Letters) of life. to those who wanted to take and punched him beyond the the weight off their feet town limits and told him not Last Issue’s Question: Arizona’s population grew rapidly In 1884 at Tombstone while they watched five men ever to return. after World War II, due in part to the development of what? die at the end of five ropes. Answer: Air Conditioning five convicted murderers were scheduled to be hung However, the carpenter was The town of Snowflake Congratulations! You got the right answer! south of Holbrook and Inter- state 40 was named in 1878 Leo Achin, Joan Adelman, James Case, Larry Damer, Richard Fordyce, Kevin Gartley, Robert Lidgett, Robert Ringer, William Smith, Gary Swanson, for its two founders, Erastus Richard Valley. Snow and Williams Flake, and not for what falls from How to Play the winter sky. Letters are hidden in the advertisements. Find the letters to spell the answer. Submit your answer with your name, address & phone Dr. S. W. Woodhouse number on a postcard for the current issue’s question to Territorial was the physician assigned Publishing, P.O. Box 1690, Apache Junction, AZ 85217. Look for the answer in the next issue. To have your name listed in the next to an 1851 U.S. Army de- issue, cards must be received no later than 10 days past the current tachment exploring northern issue of the Territorial News. For example: submitted answers to Arizona west to the Colo- the 10/30/19 question, deadline is 11/08/19. 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