Deputy Constable James Haines, a white male lawman serving the small frontier community of Safford in territorial Arizona, met his end on August 26, 1879, when a routine piece of court business turned deadly. As one of the few formal representatives of the law in a sparsely settled region, Haines� duties ranged from keeping the peace in town to carrying arrest warrants out into the rough country beyond the Gila River. On that late�summer day, he set out from Safford toward the nearby post of For
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