PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 4 | “The Disappearance of Martin Blevins”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In August 1887, the simmering feud heats up to a boil when the notorious Blevins family becomes an ally of the Graham family. When a member of the Blevins family disappears, a search party finds itself in a deadly shootout with a Tewsbury brother. A Tewksbury ally discovers that his ranch has been burned, and then a Graham brother suffers a terrible wound during an early-morning ambush. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons and no commercials: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On May 3rd, 1887, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a heavy rumbling sound
0:20.0	in towns all over southern and central Arizona.
0:23.6	At lower elevations, geysers of water shot up from the ground and caused dry creek beds
0:29.3	to roar to life as raging rivers.
0:32.9	Mountains seemed to shake and crack, and great plumes of dust and debris flew skyward
0:38.4	like eruptions from volcanoes.
0:41.2	In Tombstone, the Epitaph newspaper reported that of the approximately 7,000 Adobe bricks
0:47.1	used in buildings around town, fewer than 120 were left unbroken.
0:53.2	The event was the Sonora earthquake, the largest known earthquake to hit Arizona.
0:59.2	The epicenter was just south of the town of Douglas on a fault line near the Arizona
1:03.8	Mexico border.
1:05.2	Today, Douglas is one of two main border crossings in southern Arizona, the other being
1:10.8	no-galis, straight south of Tucson.
1:14.5	Around 60 people were killed in Douglas, and the earthquake has been estimated as a
1:19.0	7.6 on the Richter scale.
1:21.8	By comparison, the great San Francisco earthquake that destroyed the city in 1906 was estimated
1:28.0	as a 7.9.
1:30.4	For those who remember the Northridge earthquake in the San Fernando Valley north of Los
1:34.5	Angeles in 1994, the one that caused $6 billion worth of damage, that was a 6.7.
1:42.7	The Sonora earthquake was felt from Phoenix in the north to Mexico City in the south, and
1:47.9	from Yuma in the west to El Paso in the east.
1:52.0	On the Apache reservations, members of several bands thought the end of times might be near,
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