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…Law's Justice.

"In the 1880s, Globe was a booming mining town in Gila County, Arizona Territory, though it remained dependent for supplies brought in by stagecoach and pack train. Cargo delivered by train to Casa Grande on the Southern Pacific Railroad was put on an eastbound stage for Pioneer Pass in the rugged Pinal Mountains. From there it was transferred to a mule train manned by a packer and a mounted Wells, Fargo & Co. shotgun messenger for the final 12-mile stretch to Globe. On August 20, 1882, the packer was Frank Porter, the messenger Andy Hall. This time, along with supplies, they were packing a strongbox loaded with $5,000 USD in gold coins—payroll for the McMorris silver mine. Globe-based photographer Cicero Grime, his diminutive miner-millhand brother, Lafayette, and associate Curtis B. Hawley, a wood and charcoal supplier, learned of the payroll shipment and plotted to grab it. Their plan called for the trio to ambush the mule train and create an "Indian scare," blasting away with rifles until Porter and Hall hightailed it without the gold. Hawley had a 16-shot Henry rifle. Lafayette served with the Globe Rangers, a group formed to defend against raiding Apaches, and on some pretense "borrowed" a .50-caliber Springfield rifle from his captain, Dan Lacy.

At the Pioneer Pass stage station that Sunday morning, Cicero Grime watched Porter and Hall transfer their cargo to the mule train and saddle the lead roan with the strongbox. He noted that Hall carried a handgun, but Porter was unarmed. Riding north ahead of the train, Cicero relayed the information to brother Lafayette and Hawley, who had slipped out of Globe afoot to set up their ambush about four miles from town. Cicero then returned to Globe, leaving the duo to carry out the robbery…."
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It's interesting that so many of the buildings on the left side of the street in the photo have pitched rooves; not how one is accustomed to envisioning the Old West.

(smile)

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