The Coroner’s Inquest — Tombstone, March 1882 Morgan Earp was dead. The shots fired into Campbell & Hatch’s billiard parlor on Saturday night, March 18, 1882, had left the men inside able to describe the shooting, but unable to identify the men who fired from outside. The search for Morgan’s killers therefore began without an …
Morgan & Virgil Earp Leave Tombstone
Morgan’s Last Journey and Virgil Earp’s Departure — March 19–20, 1882 Morgan Earp was dead, but the Earp family’s movement out of Tombstone did not occur as a single journey. Contemporary sources document two separate departures on consecutive days: Morgan’s body left Tombstone on Sunday, March 19, while Virgil Earp and his wife left the …
The Blevins House Shootout
Five Shots at the Blevins House Holbrook, Arizona Territory — September 4, 1887 On Sunday, September 4, 1887, Apache County Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens went to a small cottage on the north side of the railroad at Holbrook to serve a warrant on Andy Cooper, a man contemporary newspapers also connected with the Blevins family. …
After the Murder of M. R. Peel
M. R. Peel’s Funeral and the Inquest Tombstone and Millville, Arizona Territory — March 26 to April 3, 1882 On Sunday afternoon, March 26, 1882, Tombstone gathered to bury Martin Ruter Peel. The twenty-six-year-old engineer had been shot to death the previous evening inside the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company office at Millville. Two masked …
The Killing of M. R. Peel
Murder at Millville Millville, Arizona Territory — March 25, 1882 On Saturday evening, March 25, 1882, four men were gathered inside the office of the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company at Millville, on the east bank of the San Pedro River. Before the night was over, one of them would be dead. M. R. Peel …
The Bucket of Blood
A Killing at Holbrook’s Cottage Saloon Holbrook, Arizona Territory — January 19, 1896 By 1896, Holbrook had earned a reputation as a rough railroad and cattle town. Along its business district stood a saloon with a name that left little to the imagination—the Bucket of Blood. Whatever the origin of that name, it was already …
Johnny Ringo’s Last Stop
Reconstructing the Place Where He Died West Turkey Creek, Cochise County, Arizona Territory — July 1882 Johnny Ringo’s death has accumulated more than a century of argument. Suicide, murder, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Buckskin Frank Leslie and others have all been worked into the story. The theories are familiar. The ground where Ringo died receives …
ANOTHER MURDER
Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce and the Killing at Charleston A Tarnished West Lost Story On January 14, 1881, a shooting at Charleston, Arizona Territory, left W. P. Schneider, chief engineer of the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company, dead and a young gambler known as Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce under arrest. Charleston is also where, on January 14, 1881, W. P. Schneider …