Site of Pleasant Valley War

Gila County · At a turnout in Young · location approximate

Site of PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Cattle rustling and the introduction of sheep into Pleasant Valley were the major causes of a bitter vendetta between the Tewksbury and Graham families and their friends from 1887 to 1892. The feud was responsible for at least 19 deaths. The Grahams were killed to the Last Man.

Proposed in this 1958 book. We have not found independent confirmation that this one was cast. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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