Buckey O’Neill and the A&P Train Robbery

Buckey O’Neill and the A&P Train Robbery (access required)

By Bonnie Greer

Published: February 28, 2012 at 12:11 pm

Buckey O’Neill had been a newspaper reporter with the Tombstone Epitaph when the OK Corral shootout occurred in 1881. The following year he moved to Prescott and worked as a court reporter and founded his own newspaper, Hoof and Horn, serving the livestock industry. He became captain of a local unit of the Arizona militia in 1886 and was elected Yavapai County sheriff in 1888.

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