The Pleasant Valley War: Furious Enemies if Crossed

In the 1880s Apache Country, below the Mogollon Rim of Arizona a combination of events involving cattle rustlers, sheep herders, outlaws, cowboys, sharp shooters, Mormons, mountain lions, Confederates, half Indians, hooded vigilantes, lawmen, and Wild West legends culminated in the largest, most violent, and most unbelievable vendetta, feud, and range war in all of American history. This is the story of the Pleasant Valley War aka the Graham Tewksbury Feud aka the Tonto Basin War that would consume over 50 victims. It’s cinematic, heroic, tragic, and often times unbelievable. It’s filled with out of this world characters, important themes, and jaw dropping, melodramatic, heartbreaking Wild West anecdotes.

Ed Tewksbury

Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens

Pleasant Valley War by Jynx Pyle

The Old West: The Ranchers by the Editors of Time-Life Books with text by Ogden Tanner

Wild West Characters by Dale Pierce

The Apache Kid by Phyllis de la Garza

The Apache Wars, the Hunt fr Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton

https://kjzz.org/content/601350/untold-arizona-pleasant-valley-war-some-secrets-will-never-be-told

https://archives.sharlothallmuseum.org/articles/days-past-articles/1/yavapai-sheriff-william-billy-mulvenon-and-the-pleasant-valley-war