William Hardy of Hardyville

The July 12th, 2007 issue of the Mohave Valley Daily News in Bullhead City, Arizona ran a story that is busted; or is it?
A few years back some people that did not like our fair city being named "Bullhead City" started a movement to change the name of the city back to what it was before it became a ghost town. That would be "Hardyville" named after it's founder and general store, stagecoach running etc. etc. founder William Hardy. Now old William looks about as much like an old west gold mining of a feller as you could ever imagine. Based on actual photos, he had the minors hat, the beard the whole 9 mules.
Well, councilman Holther started to having a business promotion disguised as a ho down and called it "Hardyville Days." City folk would dress up like pioneers and minors and such while trying to sell their stuff. So it was kind of like a Tupperware party in disguise. To this day they have never figured out why the event has never been as successful as the Mohave Mesa Kiwanis "Corn fest".
Well let me tell ya why! The Corn fest is for kids and to benefit charitable organizations in our community. Hardyville Days is to support people in the community who have money. Hum, which do you prefer to help out?
Beyond that Hardyville sounds just about as hokie of a town name as you could come up with and some of us like the name, Bullhead City. People never forget having been here or the name of our town.
Hardyville sounds to much like "Hooterville" from the TV shows Green Acres and Petticoat Junction.
Here of course lies the answer to what to do with and the name of Bullhead City. We should make Bullhead City, AZ. a corporately sponsored city. Our Sponsor of course would be Hooters. Everything from Hot wings to Airplanes in America's hottest city.
We could put a big water tank plunge next to the old museum on Hwy 95. Imagine what an exciting opportunity it would be to swim with real live Hooter's Girls in Hooterville, Arizona.
The Laughlin/Bullhead City International Airport would be renamed, "Hooters International" or if that is not ethnically diverse enough, "International Hooters" because in Hooterville we have never discriminated against a Hooter.
However, it appears, William Hardy did discriminate against Indians. At least, that is what Olivia Krok, an American Indian, and retired employee of the Bullhead City Police Department. (See MVDN 7-12-2007) She says's of Hardy, "His belief was that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. I know he did put arsenic in biscuits and flour and gave it to the Indians and killed 27 Indians at one time because it was easy for him."
What I want to know is how does Olivia know this? And why was it so "easy" for him? If it were such a well known fact that Hardy was an Indian hater would you, if you were an Indian, eat his biscuits and gravy? "Beware of Strangers Baring Gifts" is not a new saying.
If William Harding really killed 27 Indians what happened to the bodies? Who in town knew that Hardy used arsenic? Why did he not become legendary in his own time like other mass murders of the day? From The James Gang to The Wild Bunch to Dillinger the old west always revered a mass murderer. But not William Harding, "The Arsenic assassin of Hardyville" slid peacefully through the sands of the rock crusher as a mere footnote in the history of Arizona until Olivia Krok turned him into a legend; whether she intended to or not.