Posts from William T Brooks in thread „Stories Of The Old Southwest“

Stumpy; The killings went on until sometime in the late 1940s and then they started having Rangers there. It is Big Country it has to be 25 by 25 miles in size and very hard to move around in. It is now a controlled wilderness and is closed to hunting and prospecting. Oh for the good old days in Arizona when it was wide open. But when I was a boy in the 1940s Phoenix had 35,000 people now it is almost 3,000,000. I am glad that I live 100 hundred miles North of Phoenix in the wide open spaces! Chilibill

Smokey; In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were very few White Woman in the Southwest so the men would take Native American and Mexican Women for their Wives. My Great Grandmother was full blood Native American on my mothers side. This was when the 5 Outlaws showed up for Dinner at the old Ranch house Del Rio Texas and then left the $20.00 gold coins for the girls and Great Grandmother for the food. But on my Father's side his Mother was a Full Blooded Native American so that makes me almost Half. After Grandmother Larison got older and they moved to Phoenix and Grandfather was Chief of the Vice Squad for the Phoenix Police she quit the white powder because in the 1920s in the Big City it was the thing to say that you had Native American Blood. Chilibill

Stumpy; In the 1940s as High School kids we would go to the Superstition Mountains all the time hoping to make the big strike!!! The mountains were only a hour drive from Phoenix. Chilibill

Smokey and I were talking about the different cultures in Australia and the Southwestern part of the U.S.A. in the late 1800s and the early 1900s and thought that some of you might like to hear them also. As you will see in these stories most of these people were of European descendant, you can tell by their last names, were mixing with the Native Americans and Mexicans in the old Southwest that was very wild country in those days. You can go to THE SHARP FAMILY For the Stories. Chilibill