Originally Posted by crossfireoops
Originally Posted by jaguartx
Doc, that old pic shows you used to be handsome. What happened?

KRP, did any of those hound men ever hunt with Ben Lilly that you know of?


Mornin' jag,....do you have a copy of this book ?

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Don't know, I'm sure they heard of each other as they were about the same age. My GGF died from a horse wreck out hunting lion in Smith Canyon west of skull valley, 1915. Lilly was in eastern Az and hadn't been there to long at that time.

My paternal family was in the country Lilly was in, Clifton, Safford, Silver City. They probably knew him but were rancher/farmer/miners.

My GGF Joe Archambeau and his partner Joe Drew were very proficient dog men. They were famous here and When Teddy Roosevelt was president, he asked them to hunt with him on Judge Wheelers ranch in California.

I'm lucky in that I've found many newspaper articles about my GGF and Drew, some pictures in Prescott's museum.

Here's just one excerpt of a typical article.

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Joe Drew...

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