[1][2] The Power family composed of "Old Man" Jeff, the father, his wife, Martha, three sons; Charles, John, and Tom, and one daughter; Ola May.

They were originally from Texas, but moved to Arizona Territory in 1909 and homesteaded in lower Rattlesnake Canyon, south of Klondyke.

Life was not easy though; the Powers family lived "in what was still a rough and occasionally violent frontier," so the brothers often had to find work at the neighboring ranches or mines.

Hard workers, the Power family and a friend named Tom Sisson built a twenty-five mile wagon road "through some of the roughest country imaginable" to their mine.

Sisson and the Powers built a cabin to live in and, when they were in control of three-quarters of the property, they purchased a second-hand stamp mill.

To the contrary, the United States Forest Service history of the area says that Jeff convinced his sons to dodge the draft.

On February 9, 1918, the posse drove from Klondyke to the Upchurch Ranch, where they borrowed horses and saddles for the journey south to Power's Cabin.

According to Haynes, who made a statement a few days after the shootout, as soon as Jeff stepped outside, Deputy Wootan shouted: "Throw up your hands!

Haynes then drew his weapon and fired two shots through the door and one through a window as he and McBride ran to take cover behind the northern wall of the cabin.

Wootan mortally wounded Jeff with a bullet to the chest and immediately afterward he fired at Tom Power, who was looking out of a window.

Pieces of glass struck Tom on the left side of his face, but he managed to take aim at Wootan, who was trying to get away, and kill him with a single shot to the back.

At some point, Haynes suggested that he go check the back side of the cabin and when he returned he found McBride dead.