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
Main Gate to the Yuma Territorial Prison.
Yuma visitors' pamphlet from 1996.
The main guard tower.
Cells and the yard.
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
Yuma Territorial Prison
…at its current modern site of 400 South 6th Avenue, the city of Yuma requisitioned the extensive old stone prison complex for a city jail after 1915. Burt Alvord – Cochise County lawman and train robber Bill Downing – Train robber…
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Mugshot of Burt Alvord at the Yuma Territorial Prison in 1904