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Baron of Arizona

By Don Harris

Published: January 15, 2010 at 4:19 pm

When it came to an appetite for ill-gotten gains, James Addison Reavis, the self-proclaimed Baron of Arizona, was in a class by himself. In the 1880s, Reavis illegally laid claim to more than 18,000 square miles of Arizona land, covering what is today Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Casa Grande, Florence, Globe and Safford. The 75-mile by 250-mile …

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