Joseph "Mack" Axford, one time cowboy and cattleman in the neighborhood of Tombstone, Arizona, was always a man who knew his west. He came to Arizona from Michigan in 1894. Mack started work on cattle ranches at the age of 14 for ten dollars a month and room and board from an outfit at the head of the San Pedro River in Arizona Territory. Mack worked in mines along the Mexican border, guarded prisoners in the Cochise County Jail, filled in as surgeon at the County Hospital, and later became superintendant of the great herds of William C. Greene's cattle company. Mack's adventures brought him into contact with Arizona characters-some of whom became famous as outlaws, and his advancing years revealed him as a born story teller of men and events in the Arizona borderlands of the young twentieth century. The year 1968 found Mack still in motion, not only as a teller of tales around the campfire, but as Parade Marshal for Tombstone's annual Helldorado celebration. Axford authored the book: Around Western Campfires 1969 / The University of Arizona Press.
Joseph "Mack" Axford, one time cowboy and cattleman in the neighborhood of Tombstone, Arizona, was always a man who knew his west. He came to Arizona from Michigan in 1894. Mack started work on cattle ranches at the age of 14 for ten dollars a month and room and board from an outfit at the head of the San Pedro River in Arizona Territory. Mack worked in mines along the Mexican border, guarded prisoners in the Cochise County Jail, filled in as surgeon at the County Hospital, and later became superintendant of the great herds of William C. Greene's cattle company. Mack's adventures brought him into contact with Arizona characters-some of whom became famous as outlaws, and his advancing years revealed him as a born story teller of men and events in the Arizona borderlands of the young twentieth century. The year 1968 found Mack still in motion, not only as a teller of tales around the campfire, but as Parade Marshal for Tombstone's annual Helldorado celebration. Axford authored the book: Around Western Campfires 1969 / The University of Arizona Press.
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