1882 wild west newspaper THE COWBOY WARS Wyatt Earp TOMBSTONE Arizona Territory

Description: 1882 wild west newspaper THE COWBOY WARS Wyatt Earp TOMBSTONE Arizona Territory 1882 wild west newspaper THE COWBOY WARS Wyatt Earp TOMBSTONE Arizona Territory - inv # 3Z-429 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Omaha Daily Herald (NEBRASKA) dated March 30, 1882. This original wild west frontier newspaper contains a front page heading: "The Criminal 'Grounds'" with news coverage of the killing of 2 cowboys (2 wild west outlaws in Arizona Territory in general and Tombstone, Arizona Territory in particular) by a posse from Tombstone, Arizona Territory. This event took place during the "Cowboy Wars" in Tombstone, Arizona territory that involved the Earps and Doc Holiday vs the 'Cowboys'. The 2 cowboys killed in this shootout were Zwing Hunt and Billy Grounds (locally known a 'Billy the Kid'). They were thought to have been involved in the murder of M R Peel, a mining engineer during the COWBOY WARS of Arizona Territory.Interesting front page report on "THE COWBOY WARS" with the Earps (Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil) in Tombstone, the events that swirled around the GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRALThe Cochise County Cowboys is the modern name for a loosely associated group of outlaws living in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona in the late 19th century. The term "cowboy", as opposed to "cowhand," had only begun to come into wider usage during the 1870s. In that place and time, "cowboy" was synonymous with "cattle rustler".The Earp Vendetta Ride was a deadly search by a federal posse led by Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp for a loose confederation of outlaw "Cowboys" they believed had ambushed his brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp, maiming the former and killing the latter. The two Earp brothers had been attacked in retaliation for the deaths of three Cowboys in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881. From March 20 to April 15, 1882, the federal posse searched southeast Cochise County, Arizona Territory for the men they believed were responsible for the attacks on Virgil and Morgan. Several suspects had been identified and were charged, but were soon released by the court, owing in some cases to legal technicalities and in others to the strength of alibis provided by the Cowboy gang. Wyatt subsequently pursued the suspects with a federal warrant.On March 20, two days after Morgan's murder, Wyatt Earp and his brothers Warren and James along with Doc Holliday, and two other deputies were escorting Virgil and his wife Allie to a California-bound train in Tucson. They learned that suspects Ike Clanton and Frank Stilwell were already waiting there. After Virgil, Allie, and James boarded the train, Wyatt spotted two men near the train that he thought were Clanton and Stilwell. He and several men chased down and killed Stilwell, but lost the other. After Stilwell's body was found the next morning, the Tucson Justice of the Peace issued arrest warrants for the five lawmen suspected of the extra-judicial murder. When the men returned to Tombstone, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan had received a telegram notifying him of the Tucson warrants, and attempted to detain the five members of Earp's federal posse named in the warrants, but they ignored him. Still carrying arrest warrants for Curly Bill Brocius and others, they left Tombstone to pursue further Cowboys implicated in the attacks.Behan formed a Cochise County sheriff's posse consisting of deputies Phineas Clanton, Johnny Ringo, and about twenty other Cowboys and Arizona ranchers. Based on the local warrants, they followed the Earp posse and set out to arrest them. The large sheriff's posse came close to, but never engaged, the much smaller Earp posse, which received help from local businessmen and ranchers (and at one point, published a letter in a Tombstone newspaper taunting Behan and his men). The federal posse ultimately killed four men, starting with Stilwell and ending with Brocius. About April 15 the Earps and some of their associates rode out of Arizona Territory, headed for New Mexico Territory.According to Cochise County Deputy Sheriff, Billy Breakenridge, Zwing Hunt was one of the worst outlaws in that hell-for-leather county. He came from Texas and was from a good family but somewhere along the way he went bad.He arrived in Arizona with another hellion named Billy Grounds. For a spell Hunt worked as a cowboy for the Chiricahua Cattle Company but soon turned to outlawry. He and Billy began by rustling cattle but got into more serious crime when they ambushed a party of Mexicans who were smuggling silver bullion and silver dollars out of Mexico. They killed everyone in the party and left them in what is known today as Skeleton Canyon. They buried the spoils somewhere in the canyon and today it remains one of Arizona’s illustrious lost treasure stories.Apparently, Zwing and Billy had some other escapades into Mexico. An alleged deathbed tale by Zwing claimed they rode out of Mexico following a three-month raid with two four-horse wagons loaded with plunder. They hung out with a rough and tumble crowd that included, Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Tom and Frank McLaury, and the notorious Clanton’s.In the fall of 1881, some thirty head of cattle were stolen in the Sulphur Springs Valley and the tracks let to a corral where they had been sold to a local butcher in the town of Charleston on the San Pedro River. The description of the rustlers matched that of Zwing Hunt and Billy Grounds. The pair escaped arrest by hightailing it into Mexico. The following spring, two masked men with rifles entered the office of the Tombstone Mining Company and without saying a word, shot and killed chief engineer, M. R. Peel, then disappeared into the darkness. It was believed they were planning a robbery but one fired his weapon accidentally.A few days later word reached the sheriff’s office in Tombstone that the two suspects, Zwing Hunt and Billy Grounds were holed up at the Chandler Ranch, some nine miles outside of Town.Sheriff John Behan was out with another posse at the time so deputy Billy Breakenridge had the responsibility of going after the bandits. He gathered a small posse of five men to join him and they rode to the ranch, arriving just before daylight on the morning of March 29, 1882.Breakenridge placed two possemen, Jack Young and John Gillespie watching the back door of the ranch house while he and Hugh Allen guarded the front. Gillespie, aspiring to be a hero, walked up and pounded on the door, shouting, “It’s me: the sheriff.” The door opened and Gillespie was shot dead. Another bullet shot Young through the thigh.Then the front door opened and a shot rang out hitting Allen in the neck, knocking him to the ground. Breakenridge grabbed Allen by the shirt and drug him to safety then jumped behind a tree just as another shot hit nearby. Just then the shooter, Billy Grounds, stepped into the doorway to fire another round. Breakenridge raided his shotgun and fired, hitting Billy in the face. The outlaw fell, mortally wounded.In the meantime, Allen had regained consciousness and grabbed a rifle just as Zwing Hunt came around the side of the house. Both Breakenridge and Allen opened fire hitting the outlaw in the chest. The battle had lasted only two minutes and during that time two men were killed and three wounded.The dead and wounded were loaded up on a milk wagon and hauled into Tombstone.Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay USPS media mail postage. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. 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