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Show 20 about how his grandmother was dying in Pima and he needed to go see her before she died. The thirteen year old Eyring let the man take a horse on the promise that he would pay him when he returned. As it turned out, the man had recently gotten out of jail and had subsequently used the horse and saddle to rob a bank in the nearby town of Wilcox. The man was caught, however, and the horse and its saddle were returned to the Eyring livery stable. On another occasion, Eyring had to take a man to Eden, Arizona in a buggy, then return to Thatcher, a distance of ten miles. 0n the return trip, he became lost because of his unfamiliarity with this territory. Fortunately, he ran into a young couple who had rented one of the Eyring buggies and he followed them back to Thatcher, arriving very late that night. Eyring's willingness to fight others continued in Arizona. His father, in addition to the livery stable, had purchased the old Thatcher Academy grounds in the center of Thatcher. Right after their move to Thatcher a Seventh-Day Adventist preacher rented the grounds to pitch tents in order to hold a revival. Mormon town he moved on. After a few days in the predominantly The next Sunday the boys in Thatcher called Eyring a little Seventh-Day Adventist as he went to Church. For Eyring, these were fighting words and he challenged the boys to a fight. How- ever, they agreed that the fighting could wait until after Sunday School. That Sunday, Eyring's teacher, Lela Lee, also a second cousin of his, spoke about the life of the Apostle Paul. He was still anxious to fight so after Sunday School he and seven other boys found an appropriate spot nearby. After challenging several of the boys to a fight, one agreed he'd fight; Eyring won. The Thatcher boys could not lose face to a newcomer so a sixteen year old boy immediately said he wanted |
