Connections: The Life and Times of B.A. Packard in 1880s Tombstone and on the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

Tombstone, Arizona Territory, March 1880. Handsome, suave and wealthy B.A. Packard disembarks from a stagecoach onto a street of the silver mining boom town. Intending just a brief stay, Packard wound up living the rest of his days in southern Arizona.
During his remarkable life, Packard became a well-regarded mine owner, prosperous rancher, a force in territorial politics, and owner of a borderlands bank. His story is the story of southern Arizona.
Packard knew where Ike Clanton hid in the aftermath of the OK Corral. Packard mentored his friend William A. Greene through a murder trial. During the Mexican Revolution, Packard's bank held silver of the Constitutionalist cause even as Pancho Villa attacked a neighboring town.
Connections is the engrossing biography of man who lived his multi-faceted life with great integrity in often-tumultuous times. It's also the story of Packard's many and varied connections.