BobRingReflections

In my first group of history articles on this blog, I want to provide a flavor of my recent writing that I collected and self-published in three electronic books available for reading on my website, ringbrothershistory.com , under “Bob’s Projects.”  This article is adapted from Southeastern Arizona Reflections - Living History from the Wild West. Over a period of a little more than 25 years, from the late 1870s to the early 1900s, southeastern Arizona earned its legendary reputation of being the “Wild West.”  The time was characterized by fierce Apache resistance, increased ranching operations, rapidly growing mining boom towns, smuggling and cattle rustling across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a blooming network of stagecoach lines and railroads. Besides Apache raids across southeastern Arizona until 1886, Cochise County, and particularly Tombstone, was where most of southeastern Arizona’s Wild West action was.  There was considerable tension between the rural residents who wer