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Scarborough, George

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Scarborough, George

August 21, 2026

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George Adolphus Scarborough, a widely known frontier lawman in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, died at Deming, New Mexico, after being mortally wounded in an ambush near San Simon in the Chiricahua Mountains in April 1900. Acting on reports that five desperadoes and cattle rustlers were moving…

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