The most famous gunfight of the Wild West era took place on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. Over the past 135 years, written or printed materials with links to the famous shoot-out have miraculously survived the dust bins where such relics are usually relegated after their short-term usefulness.
Collectors cashed in on the opportunity to purchase some of this ephemera at Heritage Auctions’ “Legends of the West” sale in Dallas, Texas, on June 11. Featured

September 2016
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Lost in the Wilderness
- Marshal Harvey Whitehill
- Crossroads of the West
- Fred Harvey Days
- Ghosts Going Gangbusters?
- John Hance, Grand Canyon’s Windjammer
- The Slopers
- My family connections include John Wesley Hardin and Clay Allison, both of whom had Tennessee ancestors. Did the outlaws ever meet?
- Big Wheel on the River
- Hot Times in Hillside Boom Towns
- Tombstone Jackpot
- Unsung Hero?
- A Western Life Well Lived
- The Loomis Gang
- Broken Lance
- Burt Alvord’s Train Robbing Posse
- Can a person ride his horse to death?
- The Fix
- Big Jim French
- A Barn Worth Saving
- Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire
- The Shoot Out in Holbrook
- A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
Departments
- Did American Indians have some version of bathrooms or latrines?
- What History Has Taught Me
- Eating Out
- On the Trail of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
- What is the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Wyoming?
- Western Events for September 2016
- Did the Wild West era have any famous deaf people?
- The Shoots Far Gun
- Jesse James Tastes Blood
- What can you tell me about Jack Slade’s wife?