I read one time, but can’t remember in what book, about the good quality of “blue ice” that was available to Tombstone residents during its heyday. They used it to chill oysters and in drinks. I think the ice came from Alaska via San Francisco in the hull of ships. Can you shed any light on this?
Spencer Ward
Gaithersburg, Maryland
By the late 1800s, ice was being shipped into Tombstone from Benson, Tucson, and Las Vegas, New Mexico. It is possible glacial “blue ice” could have been shipped in from as far away as Alaska.
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Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian and the Wild West History Association’s vice president. His latest book is 2018’s Arizona Oddities: A Land of Anomalies and Tamales. Send your question, with your city/state of residence, to marshall.trimble@scottsdalecc.edu or Ask the Marshall, P.O. Box 8008, Cave Creek, AZ 85327.