Raymond Hatfield Gardner, better known as "Arizona Bill," is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsamhouston.asp.  He enlisted in the U.S. Army on August 16, 1888. He served as a scout during the Indian Wars. Originally from Logansport, Louisiana, Gardner claimed the Comanche kidnapped him when he was a child and later traded him to members of the Sioux Nation. Gardner’s adventures continued with the Pony Express and Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show before his death in 1940. Surrounded by more lore than fact, Gardner’s military service records were belatedly discovered and his remains were reinterred in Sam Houston National Cemetery on Veterans Day 1976.    Raymond Hatfield Gardner, better known as "Arizona Bill", was perhaps the last noted Indian scout of the American West. He was captured by Comanche Indians while on a wagon train crossing Texas, and he was traded to the Sioux. He escaped, and became a government scout at age 17.

He was a Civil War veteran, cavalryman, courier, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, government scout, deputy U. S. Marshal, Arizona Ranger, prospector, mule trader, and Wild West performer.

Then, in his later years, he retired to Fort Sam, where he chose to sleep in the stable near his beloved burro, Tipperary.

He had his own radio program in the 1930s, and wrote a book called, "The Old Wild Wild West: Adventures of Arizona Bill".
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