James D. Houck

James D. Houck James D. Houck showed up in 1900 to become a successful sheep-shearing rancher. He bought Cave Creek Station and built a store. Deputy Sheriff James Houck was a sheep rancher, allied with the Tewksbury faction in the Pleasant Valley feud. Livery stable owner Sam Brown, famed for his bluntness, described Houck as "a bad man with long hair."

Websites

The Lynching of Stott, Scott, and Wilson Injustice could be swiftly served in the old Mogollon Rim country. by Jo Baeza
http://www.wmonline.com/attract/lynching.htm

Recollections of the Town of Cave Creek, 1932
http://www.scenicdrive.org/pap04cav.htm

Books/Manuscript Collections

Fran Carlson collection, 1870-1990
MS FM MSS 72

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