Gene K. Garrison

There's Something About Cave Creek: It's the People Gene K. Garrison

This book is about the individualists who lived in Cave Creek, Arizona in the early to mid-1900s. There is a squatter who lived beside the county dump, a prospector/artist who swapped his paintings for booze, a couple of sheriffs one of whom didn't want to be a sheriff but accepted the job because no one else would . The other was a sure-shot woman who didn't take any nonsense from anyone. The social center of the town was a bar, and the musicians at parties were local talent. Three dude ranches opened for business and that meant that the wranglers didn't wrangle cows much any more. They lead guests on trail rides and entertained them in the evenings with square dances. The town still carries vestiges of the Old West and its history.