Bill Downing
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Bill Downing a.k.a. William F. Downing was a notorious outlaw during the Wild West era in Arizona. Downing had fled from the Texas Rangers posse who was after him when he came to Arizona. In Arizona,
Ranch house in Pearce
Constable Burt Alvord
The Soto Brothers Mercantile store which originally was the John H. Norton and Company Store
The Cochise Southern Pacific Railroad Train Depot in 2019
Burt Alvord
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Albert "Burt" Alvord was an American lawman and later outlaw of the Old West. Alvord began his career in law enforcement in 1886 as a deputy under Sheriff John Slaughter in Cochise County, Arizona, bu
Bill Downing
…his shoulder; the other two had penetrated his skull. The coroner's jury found that Downing was acting in self-defense and was justified. Constable Burt Alvord was hired by the town of Willcox to police the boisterous cowboys in the area because of his reputation of being a bad man in Tombstone. Alvord hired…
Mugshot of Burt Alvord at the Yuma Territorial Prison in 1904