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John Gideon Roberts was born in 1874 in Trinidad, Colo. He moved to Arizona with his family when he was 12. They settled in the Buckeye Valley after one year living in South Phoenix. Roberts was a farmer and a cowboy, later homesteading a ranch north of Palo Verde, according to a July 1954 issue of the Wickenburg Sun . The Roberts homestead was
situated between two buttes that are now known as Robbins Butte and Powers Butte. Robbins Butte was originally called Roberts Butte, but was mapped in error as Robbins Butte, according to Palo Verde Elementary School records. Roberts helped construct the Arizona and Buckeye canals, served a term as cattle inspector and was deputy
sheriff at Buckeye under three Maricopa County sheriffs. He also had been a constable in the Buckeye district in 1937, when this photograph was captured. This image shows Roberts on his horse in front of the Roxy Theater. Roberts died in 1954 and was buried at Palo Verde Cemetery. His great- granddaughter Arlene McLaughlin still lives in Buckeye.
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