b'The "Real" Virginian continued from page 43by Heck Thomas who refusedfight for her life." (Berton, Pierre,WICKENBURG Canton\'s demand to extradite themThe Klondike Fever, p. 318, 1958)Arizona Ranch style home with amazingto Pawnee. Canton apparently never views in Wickenburg Country Club!forgave Thomas but no matter, theReality, not exaggeration, bites.There is a pool, spa, small horse set up with turn outDoolin-Daltons had practically beenDawson, heavily patrolled by the and barn. The home boosts 2 master suites, one withexterminated. Dynamite Dick met hisrenowned Sam Steele and his North-its own private entrance! Almost 5 acres. end at the capable gun hands of BudWest Royal Canadian Mounted $439,000 Ledbetter at around the same time BillPolice kept the lid on Dawson and Doolin met his demise, and while itensured peace, even when scores of LAND FOR SALE took nearly another quarter century,American miners descended upon Arkansas Tom, having robbed athe town and threatened to turn it 8 ACRES HORSE PROPERTY bank in Missouri, was shot down in ainto an equivalent of Deadwood or flat and usable; private well + 4 shares in a shared well.friend\'s apartment while. babysitting!Dodge City. There was not a single Castle Hot Springs Rd/Carefree Highwaymurder in Dawson City in the entire $165,000 (agent/owner) In the aftermath of the demise ofyear of 1898 - the same year Soapy 47 ACRES OF SECLUDED LANDthe Doolin-Daltons, Judge Parker\'sSmith\'s depredations in Skagway, adjoining State Trust Land with pristine mountaincourt was abolished, the Judge sadlyfinally culminated in the death of and river views!Build your dream home and have plentydying from diabetes a year later. Byone of Canton\'s fellow U.S. Deputy of room for the horses!Great access off of highway 60 andthen Frank Canton was on the vergeMarshals by one of Smith\'s employees McCarrolls Rd in Morristown. $198,500, MLS 5382128 of accepting yet another U.S. Deputypushed Skagway to the boiling point - 60 ACRES LANDMarshal\'s position in the Yukon Riverfollowed by the shooting of Smith by off Castle Springs Road and the Old Stage Road(San DomingoDistrict of Alaska, right up on theFrank Canton, described by others asFrank Reid who himself fell, mortally Wash and Eddies Wash). Gorgeous hill top views in the Wickenburg Mountains. Live off the grid with privacy andCanadian border in the wake of thethe atypical frontier lawman, strong andwounded.In contrast to Skagway, patented mining claims. Klondike Gold Rush. silent but fast on the draw. side arms were prohibited by the $150,000 for all 3 parcels or Mounties in Dawson and personal $60,000 MLS- 5873968;It seems quite remarkable that Canton, having acceptedproperty was respected in Dawson, or else.$50,000 MLS-5873964; orthe Yukon district position in early 1897 either never$60,000 MLS-5873971 ran into the notorious Jefferson "Soapy" Smith whoAs the late Canadian Historian Pierre Berton noted:MAUREENwas by then running Skagway with an iron fist, or if he"It was possible to leave one\'s cabin or tent wide-open (in had, neglected to comment on it in his memoirs. OtherDawson), go off on a six-week trip, and return to find all SERRANO Klondike accounts make no mention of a Canton-Smithpossessions intact." (Berton, The Klondike Fever, p. 318) Saddle Up Realty andencounter which would have been most interesting,Property Management to say the least. Canton\'s jurisdiction in Circle CityCanton and his ghost-writer might have been thinking 623-521-2355right on the Canadian border was, however, a prettySkagway (curiously NOT mentioned in his memoirs) far distance from the Alaskan ports, almost 500 milesfor Dawson, but he apparently performed his duties up mserranosellsre@gmail.com through rugged, desolate and dangerous territory fromin the American part of the Yukon very well in the next Skagway. He was indeed much closer to the Canadiantwo years, rescuing stranded miners, apprehending gold Yukon town of Dawson, another major terminus on thethieves, and in one notable case rescuing a gold boat Klondike Gold line, than he was to Skagway. And despiteseized by outlaws. In a careless moment, losing his snow the fictional Judge Gannon" (Soapy Smith) attemptingglasses when he was about to embark on a mission, in The Far Country movie to extend his tentacles to thatCanton suffered a very severe case of snow blindness. Canadian town so zealously protected by the North- This ultimately forced him to resign his commission and West Royal Canadian Mounted Police that too neverreturn to Oklahoma in 1899. happened. But Canton\'s experiences in Circle City ledto a regrettable commentary made by Canton or hisFrank Canton\'s law enforcement days weren\'t quite at an ghostwriter that portrayed Dawson as a murderous denend, in fact, they lasted a good 20 years more and bought of iniquity with little or no law and order. Somethinghim renewed honors despite the snow blindness and the that simply was not true. onset of old age. He resumed his work as a lawman, in the first years of the new (20th) century tracking down Canton or ghostwriter Edward Everett Dale wrote: and then capturing the notorious bandit and bootlegger (Dawson is) "a wild, picturesque, lawless mining camp.Ben Cravens.When Oklahoma territory was finally The like had never been known, never would be seenmade a state of the Union in 1907, the Governor called again. It was a picture of blood and glittering gold- in Canton and made him the first Adjutant-General of dust, starvation and death.If a man could not get thethe Oklahoma National Guard. Canton stayed in this woman he wanted, the man who did get her had toposition at the helm of the National Guard for the next There was, just before he finally retired, one more very significant episode in the life of this REAL Virginian-a notable incident, interestingly omitted from his whitewashed memoirs, that shed much |light on the character of this very complex man. For sometime just beforehe put away his guns for good, Frank N. Canton decided to come clean.44 April 2019'