This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII. The Rustlers' War--Horn Called as Mediator--Becomes Deputy Sheriff of Yavapai County--Outbreak of "Apache Kid"--Toga's Heart Split in Two--Sieber, One Against Eleven--"Apache Kid's" Surrender-- He Kills Guards and Escapes--Roping Contests Among Cow Boys--Horn Breaks Record--Horn Goes to Denver to Work for Pinkerton National Detective Agency--A Train Robbery Case--Horn Captures "Peg Leg" Watson--Horn and Stewart Run Down Joe McCoy--Horn Quits the Pinkertons and Goes to Work for the Swan Land & Cattle Company of Wyoming--Life Story Continued in Yellow Journals. Early in April of 1887, some of the boys came down from the Pleasant Valley, where there was a big rustler war going on and the rustlers were getting the best of the game. I was tired of the mine and willing to go, and so away we went. Things were in a pretty bad condition. It was war to the knife between cow boys and rustlers, and there was a battle every time the two outfits ran together. A great many men were killed in the war. Old man Blevins and his three sons, three of the Grahams, a Bill Jacobs, Jim Payne, Al Rose, John Tewkesbury, Stolt, Scott, and a man named "Big Jeff" were hung on the Apache and Gila County line. Others were killed, but I do not remember their names now. I was the mediator, and was deputy sheriff under Bucky O'Neil, of Yavapai County, under Commodore Owens, of Apache County, and Glenn Reynolds, of Gila County. I was still a deputy for Reynolds a year later when he was killed by the Apache Kid, in 1888. After this war in the Pleasant Valley I again went back to my mine and went to work, but it was too slow, and I could not stay at it. I-was just getting ready to go to Mexico and was going down to clean out the spring at the mine one evening....