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
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Mugshot of Burt Alvord at the Yuma Territorial Prison in 1904
Yuma Territorial Prison
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The Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison in Yuma, Arizona, United States, that opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909. It is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on
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…Mexico, trapping them near Naco in February 1904. The outlaws resisted, but surrendered after having both been wounded. Alvord spent two years in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Following his release in 1906, he announced his departure by ship to start anew in Central America. He was last seen in 1910 working as a Panama Canal…
Main Gate to the Yuma Territorial Prison.
Yuma visitors' pamphlet from 1996.
The main guard tower.
Cells and the yard.