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Ralph & ShirleySwan<P>
Ralph and Shirley Swan are skilled creators of fine wood carvings and western models, and also provide affordable western and southwestern accessories.<P>wooden carvings, models, stage coaches, jewelry, zuni, native american, turquoise, belt buckles, bolo ties, locomotives, trains, pueblos<P>
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Driving along the Rim between Payson and Show Low, you already feel kind of remote from things. It's up here, where the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest hangs out over the edge of the Rim, where you find the turnoff for a town a lot of Arizonans haven't even heard of. A mountain road more like a lonely deer trail meanders down off the high country into some of the most beautiful ranch lands in Zane Grey Country. Suddenly, you're on paved roads again; there's electricity, and phone service, and even the World Wide Web. Nobody would ever expect that old deer trail to let out into a town like this. And that's just how local folks like it. <BR>
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This is where Ralph and Shirley Swan make their home, on two-and-a-half acres of Heaven some half mile or so from the Perkins Store - site of one of the more Hellish gun fights in the long Pleasant Valley War. Zane Grey himself wrote about this war, and while the name Young might be a well-kept secret, the name Pleasant Valley became almost as infamous in its day as Lincoln County (over New Mexico way), where Billy the Kid raised his own brand of Hades. Maybe that's why folks in this valley changed the name.<P> Rustlings, hangings, and shootouts are pretty rare in these parts now. In fact, most of Young's residents of today are a lot like Ralph and Shirley - nice people who'd rather shake your hand and ask you in to dinner than shoot at you. When Ralph's not marrying some happy Young couple (he's an ordained minister, you see), he's hard at his woodworking. When Shirley's not driving their RV to craft shows, she's hard at hers, too. Over the 40 years they've been at it, they've pretty much grown into experts, crafting everything from precision model boats and trains to stagecoaches, the model kind and the real thing! Ralph and Shirley invite you into their store, Carefree Woodcraft, to see how it's done.<P>
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