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The Pleasant Valley Ranger Station, known also as Pleasant Valley Administrative Site and Young Ranger Station, in Tonto National Forest near Young, Arizona was built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its architecture.
The Pleasant Valley War, sometimes called the Tonto Basin Feud, or Tonto Basin War, or Tewksbury-Graham Feud, was a range war fought in Pleasant Valley, Arizona in the years 1882–1892. The conflict involved two feuding families, the Grahams and the Tewksburys.
Young is located in northeastern Gila County at (34.111688, -110.929208), [3] along Arizona State Route 288 (which becomes Gila County 512 to the north SR 288 is paved within and north of the town, totaling about 10 miles (16 km) of pavement, but there is no fully paved road connecting Young with other highways.
Tonto Basin is located in western Gila County at (33.839953, -111.284734), [3] in the valley of Tonto Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Salt Arizona State Route 188 passes through the community, leading southeast 49 miles (79 km) to Globe, the county seat, and north 30 miles (48 km) to Payson.
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In September 1905, during the Pleasant Valley War, Jake was traversing rugged wilderness near the creek when he was thrown from his mule and suffered from head trauma. He was found unconscious and taken to the nearby town of Young, Arizona to seek medical help. He died in Young on September 29, 1905, at the age of 69. [3]
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The Tonto Basin is Y-shaped at its headwaters. East are the Sierra Ancha range, part of the Mogollon Rim, and Tonto Creek draining from the northeast. West lies the Mazatzal Mountains and a ridgeline of hills on the north, the Limestone Hills on the south-side of the East Verde River; this is the water divide at the west of the Y-shape, a much shorter drainage basin, dwarfing the major upper ...