Shootout at Miracle Valley

by William R. Daniel

Book Overview

A little over one hundred years after the legendary shootout at the OK Corral, a radical South Chicago preacher named Frances Thomas moved to Miracle Valley, Arizona. She brought not only her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604941529
• ISBN13: 9781604941524
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Wheatmark
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Learning Lesson

Great book finally the real story. Shows you how your own government can let one of it's own agency's down just for political reasons. The story should also teach us that racism goes both ways. I lived in Arizona when this all went down and only now do I really understand the truth.

Great book regarding an event that has been long over due in being told.............

This book is a fast read of a story which validates how screwed up high ranking government officials really are when it comes to their own agendas and egos. What started out as a peaceful religious congregation was taken over by an extremely racist " Pastor " and her gang of racially violent associates. It's too bad that the Governor of Arizona and the Department of Public Safety took the stance that they did during this event; hopefully the rule of Karma will bless their lives for their actions. I know some of the law enforcement participants from this event, they validated the truthfulness regarding the content of this book and how it has affected them to this very day.................a sad tale indeed.

Amazing Story !

We've lived in Cochise County now for 5 years and had never heard of the Miracle Valley shootout. I went to the Willcox library where the author and a number of the retired deputies involved in the shootout were signing copies of the book. "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this book has plenty to support the descriptions of events that is laid out in the text. It is a fascinating and enlightening read. The Cochise County Sheriff's deputies involved in the shooting were disciplined, heroic men and one woman who deserve our respect for the restraint they showed towards a MOB of CULT MEMBERS who had declared they would kill them and then set about to do so. One photo shows a deputy DEFENDING himself as a group of women STONE him to death. He was 27 years old and is clearly seen fending off their attach with empty hands - no gun, no weapon of any kind. His chest was crushed, they believe by a particular man who had also attacked him at one point. The response to this deputy's MURDER as well as to the entire incident was despicable. I only wish former Sheriff Jimmy Judd had lived long enough to see this book published. May you rest in peace, sir!

An Enlightening Read!!

Now and then a story comes along which is truly a page-turner. This story of the goings-on and eventual showdown between Pastor Frances Thomas' followers and the men and women who maintained law and order in the early days of the 1980's in Cochise County, AZ ranks right up there with only a few that I've read. It is a compelling, thoughtful and provocative account told by Mr. Daniel through his research of the facts surrounding this incident. It seems a shame that so many years have passed for the other side of this story to be told. A side which it seems was ignored or refuted at the time by self-serving politicians and others who sought to sensationalize the events for their own use. I would highly recommend this account to anyone who has an interest in humanity, conflict,religious-fanatacism,justice and the old and new west!! They say that fact can be stranger than fiction and in this case it rings true. I ask myself "what the hell were people thinking?" after putting this book down.

A fantastic read!

Couldn't put it down! A great read of a true event that happened in Cochise Co. Arizona in October, 1982, involving a religious cult from Chicago and Cochise County law enforcement. A different "shootout" than the Shootout at the OK Corral but a very interesting piece of history!