While completing my book Pleasant Valley Revisited, I wanted to give credit to a contributor, LJ Horton, who without his written history that is part of our Arizona Historical Journal I would not have been able to complete the book. Like all of my books, I like to present a little biography on any contributor that I use but could find nothing until I discovered a file at our Arizona State Archives. Wow, this was the greatest discovery in my twenty five year career to date. I am presenting in this book Tonto Basin Pioneer the amazing history of a man, LJ Horton who I believe was one of the most amazing men I have ever researched. I believe the reader after finishing this book will realize how this man, as a freighter was able to stay neutral in the Pleasant Valley War. I have moved this man up above Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as my favorite Old West characters that I have researched.