Paul
"Captain James
Henry Tevis"
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Affiliations:
Wild West Arts
Club (Northeast)
Old West Living
History Foundation
1st Captain (and
founder) of the Arizona Territorial Rangers, (NJ)
American Legion
Marine Corps League
Det. 747 (NJ)
1941 Historic
Aircraft Group, Geneseo, (NY)
ADC-Patriots Path
Council, Boy Scouts of America
Warren/Sussex Great War Assoc. "The Doughboys
of WW1"
Started working
at Wild West City in 1968 as an outlaw, (robbing trains & stages).Once he saw
the "errors of
his ways", he put on a badge and arrested his old gang.........
He portrays Captain
James Henry Tevis, The First Captain of the Arizona Rangers.
James Tevis was
also an officer in the Confederate Army, rising tho the Rank of acting
Captain by wars end.
Tevis helped open
up the Arizona Territory. The town of Teviston (now Bowie) was named after
him.
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