Entering Benson
Additional Details:
| The area around Benson has been inhabited for centuries. A Spanish Officer wrote in 1697 of houses along the San Pedro between Quiburi and the Gila River, and mentioned the extreme fertility and prosperity of these ranches although they were continually raided by savages. In the early days cowboys, miners and Mexicans filled the saloons. It was here that "Jack the Ripper" was killed in Fisher's saloon. |
