"The Baron of Arizona " Topic
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Tango01 | 14 Mar 2015 10:49 p.m. PST |
"In 1883, an aristocratic-looking man suddenly appeared in Phoenix, Arizona, and calmly announced that thanks to his possession of the Spanish titles of Baron de Arizonaca and Caballero de los Colorados, he owned the entire city and an area surrounding it that amounted to nearly eleven million acres. The territory included not only the state's capital city, but the Silver King mine, a treasure in copper, gold, and silver ore, and, oh, yes, the right of way of the Southern Pacific Railway. James Addison Reavis had just proclaimed himself the Baron of Arizona. Reavis' astonishing rise to fortune began when he was a soldier in the Confederate Army, when he accidentally discovered that he had a remarkable talent for forging passes of leave for himself and his friends. Having an intelligence and ambition to match this unexpected gift for criminality, he naturally began to think of exercising his abilities on a larger scale…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Old Slow Trot | 27 Mar 2015 6:36 a.m. PST |
Read about him in one of the "Big Book Of…." series. Tried to pass off a housekeeper(whom he married) as a member of the Peralta family also. |
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