TEXAS JOHN SLAUGHTER

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Texas John Slaughter, famed Cochise County lawman, stood a short five foot six inches. Former Bisbee resident Natalie Denny once recalled that, as a young girl, she met Slaughter and remembered him fondly as a cute little midget.

BISBEE - A CIVICS LESSON

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - During the 1964 general presidential election, a local service station owner in Bisbee AZ gave free elephant and donkey masks to children in the Warren area of town. Even though Bisbee's voter make-up was highly Democratic, a large number of local children chose to wear elephant masks in support of Arizona's native son, Barry Goldwater.