Colcord Alpha Traditional Cache
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Short walk in the forest just off a paved road.
Cache is located on a trail off of Colcord Road which is a paved road, suitable for any vehicle. Short walk under 400 ft. to the cache. Please reclose the gate, after you walk through it.
Colcord Road was named after the pioneering Colcord family.
William C. "Bill" Colcord was born in Louisiana in 1867. His father, Col. William Rogers Colcord, returned home from the Civil War and found his Louisiana sugar plantation in ruins, so he moved his family to Oklahoma Territory. After the death of his father, Bill, and his younger brother, Harvey, moved to Arizona Territory. They arrived in Flagstaff in 1885 with a herd of cattle. There, Bill worked for Babbitt Brothers Cattle Company, and Harvey tended the Colcord cattle. After a year, they moved to Walnut Creek, west of Pleasant Valley.
While in Pleasant Valley, Bill and Harvey became acquainted with both factions of the Pleasant Valley War -- the Grahams and the Tewksburys.
The Pleasant Valley War (also sometimes called the Tonto Basin Feud or Tonto Basin War) was an Arizona range war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys. Although Pleasant Valley is physically located in Gila County, Arizona, many of the events in the feud took place in Apache County, Arizona, and in Navajo County, Arizona. The feud itself lasted for almost a decade, with its most deadly incidents between 1886 and 1887, with the last known killing occurring in 1892. At one stage, outsider and known assassin Tom Horn participated as a killer for hire, but it is unknown as to which side employed him, and both sides suffered several murders to which no suspect was ever identified. Of all the feuds that have taken place throughout American history, the Pleasant Valley War was the most costly, resulting in an almost complete annihilation of the two families involved.
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