Sources:

Phone interview and emails from Chris Milton of Colonial Heights, Virginia (great grandnephew of Jeff D. Milton)

Emails from Sally (Gamble) Lee of Arizona (great-grandniece of Jeff D. Milton)

J. Evetts Haley, “Jeff Milton, a good man with a gun,” University of Oklahoma Press, 1948

B. Bryon Price, “When a Good Man With a Gun, Met a Good Man With a Pen,” Journal of Arizona History, Spring, 1992

Daisy Parker, “John Milton, Governor of Florida: A Loyal Confederate,” The Florida Historical Quarterly, April, 1942

Jeff D. Milton Death Certificate (Office of Vital Records)

Bio on Jeff Milton: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmi58

Dan Thrapp, “Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography,” University of Nebraska Press, 1988

Pullman Co. info: www.pullman-museum.org/theCompany/

Pima County plat map MP08041

“A Big Shake: Tucson Gets an Earthquake — Buildings Rock Like Ships at Sea,” Arizona Daily Star, May 4, 1887

“Hold Up on the N.M. & A.,” The Oasis (Nogales, Arizona) Feb. 17, 1900

“Chinaman Walked In From Mexico,” Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 19, 1912

“Jeff Milton Busy Man Immigration Force,” Arizona Daily Star, Feb. 3, 1912

J. F. Weadock, “Col. Jeff. D. Milton, 85, Noted Peace Officer, Dies” Arizona Daily Star, May 8, 1947


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