The earliest known reference to football in Arizona is from George Parson’s Tombstone diary, dated January 12, 1882: “Grand foot ball racket this afternoon on Fremont Street near Fourth. All hands joined in, all kinds of conditions and we had much joy. Result about $10 worth of glass broken in Epitaph and Nugget and some sore toes.” The game was played near the rear entrance to the OK Corral and though it’s not known who all played, legend says one of the Earp boys made a comment that endures to this day.
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January 2016
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- Western Events for January 2016
- Tom Ketchum and J.N. Powers
- Best of the West 2016: Art & Collectibles
- Mary Kidder Rak
- The Gunslinger Aims to Kill
- The Best of True West Online 2015
- Best of the West 2016: Heritage Travel
- The Ketchum Brothers
- A Snowball’s Chance
- Mining Gold the Easy Way
- What does “four-flusher” mean?
- Cowboy Survivor
- The Bandit Queen Meets Her End
- Gold Rush Days
- The Cloud King
- Best of the West 2016: Firearms
- Salado Creek
- Josephine Williams
- What does “waddie” mean?
- Straight-armed at The OK Corral
- Best of the West 2016: Western Wear
- Billy the Kid’s Great Escape
- Frontier Editors
- What is a cowboy?
- Starry, Starry Fight
- Charlie Bowdre’s Wardrobe Malfunction
- George Warren and the Seal
- What bacon did trail cowboys eat?
- Youthful Tales from the Overland Trails
- The “Cowboy” Pianist
- Henry and Belle Starr
- Fame is in the Name
- The Battle of the Bulls
- Why aren’t great supporting actors in Westerns shown respect?
- Best of the West 2016: Western Books
- “Not Much, Mary Ann.”
- An Englishman’s Extraordinary Adventures
- Miss Piggott’s Special
- Lost Tales of the Frontier
- How many Indians died at the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn?
- Cowboy Grub
- Doc and Wyatt Split
- Three-Legged Willie Williamson
- Who Cleaned Up Cochise County?
- If Billy the Kid would have been given a fair trial in the Cahill incident, would the Kid have been convicted of murder or a lesser charge?
- Best of the West 2016: Western Movies DVDs & TV Shows
- Tumbleweed Wagons
- The 100 Best Historical Photos of the American Cowboy
- The Regulators’ Worst Enemy
- Harry Morse vs Narato Ponce
- I’m a fan of AMC’s Hell on Wheels. Is the route constructed from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, still in use today?
- Blazer Puts the Bite on Madam Sadie
- Tombstone’s Madams and Working Girls
- Arizona’s Lady Admiral
- Billy the Kid’s Last Victim
- Was Wyatt Earp a Pimp?
- When did the practice of branding livestock begin in the U.S.?
- The Mystery of Jim French
- Robb Kendrick
- Old-Time Remedies
- Esteban: A Pass too far?
- What happened to Mart “Old Man” Blevins of the Pleasant Valley War?
- The Great Die-Up
- Walter Noble Burns and the West
- Fred Fritz and the Grizzly