152:... 12 miles east of Holbrook." At sunrise two horsemen were seen riding towards his party from the direction of Holbrook. One man shouted, "Here we come! All shot to pieces." The head of the other man was wrapped in bloody bandages covering a serious wound. Potter went on to write: "We recognized them as Joe Crawford, a cowboy who had worked for the Aztec Land and Cattle Company known as the Hashknife Outfit, and George Bell, a gambler. Crawford was so weak that he had to be lifted from the horse he was riding. We laid him on the horse wrangler's bed and with a handful of flour from the cook's bread pan I plastered the wound on his head and stopped the bleeding. Examination showed that a bullet had also passed through the cuff of his shirt and coat sleeve, and just grazed the side of his body. Scars of other old wounds showed that this was not Crawford's first fight."
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In 1913, a newspaper reported that a church was finally to be built in
Holbrook; however, it was reported that the proprietor of the Bucket of Blood Saloon considered this the "end of an era" and cancelled his subscription to the newspaper in "disgust". It had until that time been the only county
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Potter then describes Bell's involvement in an incident during a card game with a man named Ramon Lopez, during which Lopez struck
Crawford in the head with his six-shooter gun. Crawford retaliated by drawing his gun and killing Lopez. Shooting then broke out in the saloon, and Crawford killed
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was out of town at the time. The newspaper report claims that when the widow Hiatt heard the news she fell "lifeless to the floor". The saloon was owned at the time by F. J. Wattron, however
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Hashknife Outfit cowboys outside the Bucket of Blood Saloon, circa 1890
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of outlaws who was later killed during an attempted bank robbery at
443:"Q&AZ: How Did Holbrook's Bucket Of Blood Street Get Its Name?"
627:"National Register Assets - National Register System ID# 97000041"
605:"South Central Avenue Commercial Historic District: Henning Block"
336:"Mike Budenholzer Has Come a Long Way From Bucket of Blood Street"
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Dusty River Antiques and Grocery, 105 Bucket of Blood Street
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Bucket of Blood Saloon building on Bucket of Blood Street
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Hashknife Outfit of the Aztec Land and Cattle Company
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