Site of the O'Neill-Munds House

A Victorian cottage on this site was home to William Owen O'Neill, known as Buckey for his habit of bucking the odds at faro on Whiskey Row. From an upstairs office he published his livestock paper, Hoof and Horn, while serving as Yavapai County sheriff and, in 1897, mayor of Prescott. In 1898 he raised a company of Arizona volunteers for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was killed on July 1 at the foot of San Juan Hill, refusing to take cover. His rearing bronze statue stands on the courthouse plaza.

What the plaque says

A beautiful Victorian cottage facing East Sheldon Street was built on this site by W. B. Jones. On November 15, 1893, William Owen (Buckey) O'Neill and his wife Pauline moved into the house. O'Neill used a portion of the upstairs as his office where he published his livestock newspaper, Hoof and Horn. O'Neill, who came to Arizona in 1879 at the age of 19, met his future wife, Pauline Marie Schindler, in Prescott in 1885. They were married on April 27, 1886.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prescott — 0.5 mi
  Arizona's first territorial capital — Whiskey Row, the courthouse square, and a mile-high pine town
• Jerome — 24 mi
  The billion-dollar copper camp clinging to Cleopatra Hill — now the largest ghost town in America
• Tuzigoot — 29 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression

More markers nearby

• Hassayampa Inn — 0.3 mi
• Site of the Territorial Courthouse — 0.4 mi
• Doc Holliday in Prescott — 0.4 mi
• Prescott, Territorial Capital — 0.5 mi