The Arizona sentinel., 1898-11-05
LIFE IN THE WILD WEST
Described by Hank Brown to q Tender
 Foot Reporter.

Hank Brown, who says he is the
 oldest stage driver and the bos.
 Indian killer in the West, is in The
 city The visitor is 66 years old
 Swarthy and wrinkled. and very
 picturesque Tn his attire. The last
 stage he drove was between Sar Bernardino and Tucson, for which
 he had the government mail con tract. Since the advent O. the
 railroad in the section he las au.
 gagged ia the mining business, and he and ?. M. McGrath of this city
 are now the owners of several work ing claims twenty-five miles thls
 side of the Colorado River, in the Mccoy Mountains.
 In his younger days Hank was adventurous, for. according to his
 own story, he has driven stages in
 the early days, variously in Califor-
 mia, Oregon, Washington Territory,
 Idaho, and Utah. He tells stories
 which are designed to show an in
 innate acquaintance with the not
 'bles of the West in those days, and
 hat he was an active participant
 n many stirring adventures and occurrences. But now Hank is
 man of family, with boy in Manila and home five miles out of San
 @ernardino. He picked up tender foot reporter yesterday, and got himself interviewed.
 "l began stage driving in Cali fornia in '50," said Brown, "and was at it almost continuously up to the time the Southern Pacific built through San Bernardiuo and Tue son In '54 I was driving between Columbus House and Marysville, and Hank Monk, whom Mark Twain mentions in 'Roughing It. was driving between Marysville and Virginia City. Mark Twain oftel rode with me, and 1 carried Horace Greeley also On this trip Horace said to me. Driver, Pve just got to get to Mary5ville at 2, for they were expecting Horace the Q to spe k before he took dinner at the hotel, I knew that for the manager Of the stage line told Ire, and he said Hank, Horace is visitor among IL, and get him in on time I got Horace there at 7 sharp, but he nearly had the liver shook out of him. Horace gave ny partner Hank Monk, who ran into Virginia City, a gold watch for little service in good driving. Hank died five years ago, but his family's got the watch yet.
 "In '5t the stage was driving between Columbus House and Marysvilie was held up by Joaquin Murietta and twelve others. There was $45.000 in dust in the stage I those dPys the stage company was always expecting a hold-up, and the manager said to me before leaving Columbus House, Hank, you'er working for me, and you ain't on that seat for target; all you got to protect is the horses and the stage So when Joaquin jumps into the road followed by his men, and says nothing, bat just covers me, I rcins up and lights my pipe and takes a new chew. Joaquin got of with every ounce of that dust. Pe is living in house built so nobody csu get at him line fac. that Joaquin was killed thirty odd years ago has escaped from memory.
 In 5G 56I asrunnlnga butcher shop in Jacksonville, Or That was about the time Mrs. Wagner was killed, and the Hayes family ] were murdered. There was an Indian uprising and the country | was scared, The day the Hayes family were murdered the settlers had just about got tired monkeying with those Indians, and we made up our minds to put an end to them. We sent to Hungry Hill to Capt. A. J. Smith of the army for his 400 . lragoons, and then I organized of men, com posed entirely | of gamblers and such like, the finest lot of fighting men you ever saw. That afternoon the Indians attacked .