Archive for May 2nd, 2010

Poster for the Sells Brothers Circus.

In the late 1800s, the arrival of the circus was a special event for the entire community.  In San Diego, everyone came to see the show.

Read more about the Circus.

When I was at San Diego, a great many complaints were made by citizens there, and persons arriving from the Gila, of a gang of lawless men who had established a ferry over the Colorado, where not only they practised the greatest extortions, but committed murders and robberies . . .

Read about the Glanton gang at the Yuma Crossing: The Scalp Hunters.

The Yuma crossing