Galeno was a town in the Arizona Territory of the Southwestern United States. During the 1870s and 1880s, the town was dominated by the cattle baron Hody Taylor, who built a school, church, and bank (which never turned down a loan for any worthy person) in the town and grew quite popular among its citizens. After Taylor was shot dead by Tombstone Sheriff Clay Hollister in July 1881, Jess Caulfield and a few other locals lured Hollister to the town after sending him a letter and a stagecoach inviting him to a sheriffs' meeting in Tucson. On 22 July, Hollister arrived in the town, only to be forced into the Stockman's Saloon to be "tried" by the Mayor and a court. Mayor Norwood Y. Melroy, Judge Nestor Giraldez, Jess Caulfield, and several others attempted to have Hollister hanged for murder after a trial, but Hollister produced telegrams from other cattle towns which proved Taylor's murderous criminal record, and this was seconded by his widow, Blanche Taylor. This was enough to make Mayor Melroy have Hollister acquitted, and Hollister chose not to press charges for any of what had happened in Galeno.
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