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Morgan Earp Assassinated While Playing Pool
On Saturday, March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp’s Last Day ended in Campbell & Hatch’s billiard parlor in Tombstone, shot in the back While playing pool
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Curley Bill kills Marshal White
On the evening of October 30, 1880, “Curley Bill” Brocius, Jim Johnson, Andy McCauley, and a few other cowboys were drinking at Carrigan’s Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. Saturday evening was cool and breezy in Tombstone. Before the end of the beautiful night, Curley Bill kills Marshal White. Tombstone Arizona’s first Marshal. 31 year old Fred…
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Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday
The Gunfight That Didn’t Happen Tombstone, Arizona — January 17, 1882 Less than three months had passed since the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Tombstone was still a town divided. Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead. Virgil Earp had been badly wounded in an ambush on Allen Street. The feud between the…
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Breakfast and Tombstone Arizona Critters
We had taken the trike out for a quick ride through town and stopped at the O.K. Cafe for breakfast. Over coffee and a substantial meal, we laid out the plan for the day. Our primary destination was the site of Johnny Ringo’s death and the isolated grave where he was buried in 1882. The…
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Wyatt Earp and Tombstone’s Fire Department
Is That Really Him in the Photograph? A Tarnished West Photo Investigation Old photographs have a way of acquiring identities over time. A name gets attached to an otherwise unidentified face, the photograph is copied, and eventually the identification begins to be repeated as fact. One photograph of Tombstone Engine Company No. 1 provides a…
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Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday at the Faro table?
Not Quite!! At first glance, it looked like a remarkable discovery—a photograph supposedly showing Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday seated at a faro table inside Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon. That excitement disappeared as soon as the photograph was examined more closely. There was virtually no chance the men in the photograph were Earp and Holliday. The…