Devil's Canyon

Devil’s Canyon,. . . “The Outlaw State,” and DEVIL’S CANYON illustrates why this portion of rattlesnake country deserves that title. This film tells the inspiring tale of a Real Life prison uprising that took place in 1897 near Yuma. Abby, a penitentiary nurse\trustee serving a life sentence for staging a series of bank and train heists, orchestrates a smuggled shipment of two dozen revolvers into the jail’s medical clinic. During the ensuing chaos, 14 guards are shot dead and a score more gravely wounded as the entire prison population is freed from the cells, turning a Gatling gun and road construction dynamite against penitentiary personnel. Recognizing how plucky sharpshooter Abby epitomizes Arizona Territory’s motto (“We aim to slay”), the hostage warden grants her a full pardon on the spot. More than a century later, Arizonians still are exercising their inalienable 2nd Amendment Right to knock off their Congress person, as well as anyone in the vicinity.