"Despite its early law enforcement presence, Prescott's place in the violent history of Yavapai County is written in blood. The jealousy, greed and pure meanness of some of its citizens produced shocking trails of destruction and death. The Keystone Saloon couldn't keep a proprietor--a series of owners was found dead with gunshot wounds. A driver-for-hire was brutally assaulted and his car stolen in Prescott's first homicidal carjacking. Two nurses...

"Nearly a dozen people witness the violence occurring in the Palace Saloon on a summer night in 1884, and at least half of them are involved. Who is guilty of what? Will the the public outcry for retribution require the hangman's noose? Undermined by explosive publicity, where in the region can an impartial jury be found? What form will the shifting sands of frontier justice take in the capital of Arizona Territory? This true and well-documented story...