Paul J. Van Eeckhoven
"Captain James Henry Tevis"

  Affiliations: 

Wild West Arts Club (Northeast)

Old West Living History Foundation

1st Captain (and founder) of the Arizona Territorial Rangers, (NJ) 

American Legion Post 86 Newton, (NJ)

Marine Corps League Det. 747 (NJ)

1941 Historic Aircraft Group, Geneseo, (NY)

ADC-Patriots Path Council, Boy Scouts of America

"The Doughboys of WW1"

Paul Started working at Wild West City in 1968 as an outlaw, (robbing trains & stages).Once Paul 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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