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PLEASANT VALLEY
For thousands of years people have been seduced by Pleasant Valley, a little piece of paradise hemmed in by the Sierra Ancha Range, high grasslands and the surrounding desert. Once it was the site of one of the West's most notorious family feuds. Now it's a place where a bit of the legendary West lives on. Whether farmer, cattle rancher, miner, poet or drifter, the imagination has always homesteaded here.
"It's always a very special feeling for me to come up to the Tonto Basin. The road from Globe to Young is one of the prettiest back road drives in the whole state. But it's the history of the Pleasant Valley war that so often brings visitors to the area. So many different stories about it -- books, novels: Zane Grey wrote one. I've written some about it too, so it's always real interesting to come up here."
"A century ago the sheriff had his work cut out just keeping law and order. But today, times have mellowed and the guitar is mightier than the gun. Andy Brunson is the resident deputy in Young. Only in Young would you find a gun-toting, guitar-picking sheriff who relishes secret canyon walls at sunset where he can write ballads and sing his heart out about the bad old days . . . "
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