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Pete Jensen: Bear Creek Cowman Arrested for Embezzlement in Tucson

person Pete Jensen · 📝 Short · 104 words

Pete Jensen, formerly a Bear Creek cowman, was arrested in Tucson, Arizona, for swindling Zeckendorf & Company and charged with embezzlement. [chunk:1710]

Ike W. Stevens Survives Arrow Attack on Navajo Reservation

person Ike W. Stevens · 📝 Short · 93 words

Stevens was a miner, hunter, and prospector well known in Clifton, Arizona, and Alma, New Mexico. [chunk:1726][chunk:1735]

Billy the Kid (William Bonney): Notorious New Mexico Outlaw

person Billy the Kid · 📝 Short · 91 words

Billy the Kid, also known as William Bonney, was a notorious outlaw active in late-19th-century New Mexico [chunk:1228]. His criminal career began with his first killing in 1878 and ended with his death at the hands o…

Edward L. Doheny – Mining Consultant in Silver City

person Edward L. Doheny · 📝 Short · 76 words

Doheny was a mining consultant and patent agent based in Silver City, New Mexico, who later became a leading capitalist and a central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal [chunk:2634][chunk:2633].

Jerry Sullivan – Rincon character arrested for burglary, escaped to Mexico

person Jerry Sullivan · 📝 Short · 73 words

Bull's store in Deming and attempted to escape from a deputy sheriff [chunk:2496][chunk:2512].

Robert Redding – Lone Mountain Miner Acquitted in 1888 Killing

person Robert Redding · 📝 Short · 103 words

Manley at Central City in October 1888; he was later acquitted after a trial that won community approval [chunk:1780][chunk:2495].

Pat Garrett: A Chronology of a New Mexico Frontiersman

person Pat Garrett · 🕰️ Timeline · 24 words

Pat Garrett, a prominent figure in New Mexico's frontier days, was known as the slayer of Billy the Kid and later served as a collector of customs in El Paso [chunk:1275][chunk:1232]. He was killed in 1908 near Las Cr…

Pat Garrett: Frontier Lawman and Slayer of Billy the Kid

person Pat Garrett · 📖 Deep History · 465 words

Pat Garrett, a prominent figure in New Mexico's frontier days, served as the sheriff of Lincoln County and later as a collector of customs at El Paso, gaining widespread notoriety for killing the outlaw Billy the Kid …

Double Murder Near Springerville in Luna Valley (1888)

event double murder near Springerville · 📝 Short · 93 words

A double murder occurred near Springerville, Arizona, in the Luna Valley in 1888, triggered by a dispute that began after a horse race [chunk:1545][chunk:1551].

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