Sheriff's Badge
Cochise County
The badge design is a crescent moon over a 5 point cut-out star. The words "Cochise County" are located in the crescent and the word "Sheriff" is located in the star. This badge is silver in color with a pin back.This is a new imported item. A Little Bit of History
Cochise County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was created on January 3, 1881 out of the eastern portion of Pima County. John Harris Behan (1844 – 1912) was, for 21 months of a two-year term (Feb. 1881 to Nov. 1882), the sheriff of Cochise County in the Arizona Territory. This newly-created county, of which Behan was the first sheriff, included the mining boom city of Tombstone, which served as the new county seat and Behan's headquarters. Immediately previously, Behan had served three months as undersheriff for the southern area of Pima County which included Tombstone, succeeding Wyatt Earp in this position. Behan is known for being county sheriff at the time of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the Earp Vendetta ride.(Taken from Wikipedia)
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